My Adopted Self Spinning Out of Control by Emma Macgent
My car spun out of control quickly as metal on metal made a horrible noise. I was on the Interstate in my small yellow Datsun hatchback. As others in crisis describe, many thoughts went through my mind. It wasn’t individual thoughts, but a general sense of lack of accomplishment and things yet to do and experience. I thought I was going to die that day as I screamed an expletive. (You can imagine what you might scream if you thought this was the last minutes of your life). I was in my mid-twenties, single, had completed college and had good professional career path. I lived in an apartment, had a roommate and had some family in the area. One minute I was at the gas pump, and the next I was on the interstate and the car was spinning out of control. Then I heard a loud metal noise. I awoke in a hospital bed with the bright lights and people bustling around me. I felt pain, but I couldn’t put i...