My Random Journal of Thoughts

~A Memory~

~A Memory~

For some reason as I was doing my homework around this time, a memory occurred to me from when I was about five or six years old. 

I remember that I was at a shopping mall on a summer day, my mom was picking up a prescription at a drugstore, and it was very hot but humid. I was wearing a white tank top with a blue denim skirt and my hair was in a braid (my hair was very long when I was littler).

My mom trusted me to cross the street without holding her hand because I was a very cautious child, so she let me follow her across the road to the shops. I was around the middle of the road, walking kind of slowly because I was thirsty and tired from being at the park earlier. So I was just dragging along behind my mom and not really paying any attention. 

Suddenly, I heard a loud beeping noise from a car that was coming toward my direction, and I looked up quickly to see a red Volvo swerving towards me. I was scared and being that I was a young child I didn't know what to do, so I stood there in shock until I finally heard my mom's voice telling me to run towards her.

I looked over at my mom who was running towards me, but I couldn't move for some reason, and I looked back at the car. I could literally see the whites of the man's eyes driving in the front seat, his eyes were diluted in fear of running me over, but it was obviously too late to stop the car.

Then, I felt a sharp push against my back forcing me to jump out of the way at the last second. 

I could've sworn I saw something push me, but out of the corner of my eye it looked like a flash of golden light. I'm not a really religious person, but I sometimes question if that was an angel or something.

The only injury I got from that incident was a scrape on my knee from hitting the road while falling.