The Welcoming Void
I was hit by a car when I was three years old. My heart stopped beating for 2 minutes and I lost a lot of blood. It was like a weird out-of-body experience – I could see the entire mall, my parents crying their eyes out and police cruisers and ambulances. Suddenly it felt like I was being sucked into a vacuum and I ended up in a welcoming void like someone was hugging me close. Everything blacked out and then I was in the ICU, screaming my lungs out before my father came to comfort me.