Snow Globe of Emotion

It has begun.  I’m currently sitting in a snow globe of emotion – literally.  My office building has a zillion windows to stare out at the first blizzard of many to come this season.  Oh happy day.  Honestly I dread winter weather – driving in it especially.  Two years ago on my way to work one morning, I hit a patch of black ice while driving my husband’s beloved sporty red truck.  I flipped a few times in the air only to be stopped dead in my tracks by a tree.  Although I walked away with only a few bumps and bruises, the truck wasn’t the only thing totaled in that accident.  My confidence driving in the winter shattered as well.  These kinds of traumatic events are portrayed in movies as moving in slow motion.  Well, it’s true!  It was incredibly strange tumbling in the air.  It was if the world around me was at a standstill…that is until my forehead and the steering collided.  Panic didn’t set in until after a few moments of lying on my side looking through the disintegrated windshield.  Movies ruined me on that one too.  Watching cars blow up from a leaking gas tank, people being trapped in their car, snow covering the vehicle never to be found again, - yes all very extreme cases, but running through my mind at this point nonetheless.  I climbed up the seat and out the passenger door as passersby stopped to offer their aide.  I’m astonished but thankful I wasn’t hurt more than I was.  It doesn’t, however, put me in a good frame of mind when winter rears it’s ugly head each year.  Now to face the dreadful beast again.