man it feels good to be alive and uninjured. i just got back from a bike ride and i almost got myself killed/seriously injured…again. it’s so exhilerating though. i was going at about 30 mph down a long hill that had about a 5 degree grade, steep enough to get some serious speed but not so steep that i had to keep my brakes on, oh and it was still dark out. so as i was heading down this street a minivan pulls out at this weird intersection. i thought it was going to merge into the main road and go the same direction i was going, but it crossed the main road and was heading toward the road that runs kind of parallel to the main road but at about a 15 degree difference. the intersecion is kind of shaped like a Y with a road that goes from the intersecion of the Y off to the left. so as the van was pulling out it finally saw that i was coming, which was a really good thing because it slowed down just enough and i slowed down just enough to barely miss hitting the van and so i could manage to veer off onto the road that the van was going to go down. i thought at the very least i would wipe out on the pavement and end up with some serious scrapes, but for some reason i let go of my brakes just at the right time to stop skidding, regain control, and cruise down the road without missing a beat. it never ceases to amaze me how the human body can react so quickly in a critical situation. during that ordeal i didnt put any concious thought into what i needed to do, i just did it and didnt realize what happend until it was over (when i screamed like a girl.) experiences like these also make me continue to question whether there’s some kind of divine power at play. i say this because i currently consider myself an atheist, but i always tell people that if something happened to me where there was no other possible reason it couldve happened besides an act of god, i might seriously reconsider that position. this i would say does not qualify as one of those times because this has happened to me several times and i think i just got lucky. ok, something really weird just happened: as i was typing that last sentence (which was supposed to be the end) i accidently typed “god” instead of “got.” it seems like every time i think about if there’s a god or not i notice all of these weird coincidences like that. i can say though that it will take a lot more than a coincidence for me to change my mind.