One does not expect to get hit by an eighteen-wheeler truck while listening to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. The beauty of that glorious music was interrupted by the sound of metal crunching against metal as the truck moved over into the right hand lane of the highway without looking to see if anyone was in that lane. I was. His truck hit the driver’s side of my Toyota Camry, which sent it spinning. As it did, he hit my car again.
My only thought was: I’m going to die.
I could not control anything. It was terrifying.
I didn't see my life flashing before me eyes.
It all happened way to fast to register anything.
My Toyota spun out into the next lane.
Thankfully there was no one in that lane of highway or their vehicle would’ve hit mine and I would have been killed.
Instead, I crashed into the metal median and blew out all four tires. The car was totaled. It is frightening to know that one’s life could end so quickly and unexpectedly. On a normal, ordinary day. A day that could have ended my life and changed those in my family without warning.
All I had been doing was driving to work.
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are not only some of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, they are also some of the most groundbreaking. It’s hard to believe that he composed these as a job application - for a job that he did not get. In fact, not only did he not get the position but these gorgeous compositions lay ignored and unplayed for over a century. It wasn’t until 1849 that they were discovered in the Brandenburg archives and were published a year later.
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