My Friday the 13th

It's been a while since my last blog and I'm writing about a topic that has never been really significant to me, a superstition called Friday the 13th.

The popular western superstition, also known as Black Friday, is an unlucky day if Friday falls on the 13th of the month.

 So it's never been that significant to me because I've always survived Friday the 13ths with no unlucky happenings. Bad luck comes when it does, regardless of the date or day of the week. It's just a superstition.

 However, yesterday was different. November 13 fell on a Friday and I was in a company teambuilding event in a very nice resort. I spent my free time biking around the beautiful place. The sun was up, the sky clear, the lush landscape complemented everything.

 It was a perfect morning with no signs of anything bad that may happen. But lo and behold, as I biked down the bridge, the downward acceleration was so fast I wasn't able to react or brake immediately. I couldn't control the bike properly and I was either hitting the grass mound or the pond. So I chose the mound and fell hard onto the ground.

 I was there for a moment, trying to grasp the situation, absorbing the pain. In a funny way, I felt relieved. It could've been worse but it wasn't. My left leg and right hand absorbed most of the impact. My head didn't hit anything hard. I was bruised and scratched all over but I wasn't bleeding. I took a deep breath. No one was there. No one to laugh at me or help me, just myself.
One of the bruises I got from the accident
So I took another deep breath and picked myself up. It was a good feeling - to be scared and be relieved, to fall hard and pick oneself up, to be in a dangerous situation and live to tell the story. It felt good to live, just live.

 Maybe the accident and the date was just a coincidence. After all, I did went through a lot of Friday the 13ths without experiencing anything. But as I realized everything that happened, it felt so funny because on the contrary, I felt lucky. I was lucky enough to walk away simply scratched, lucky enough not to fall on that pond and drown, lucky enough to just live. Just.. live :)

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