Terrified. Horrified. I struggled to describe the plethora of feelings going through my mind as my life began to flash through my mind.
As young as I was it wouldn’t take long. Personally, there were a few memories, I would prefer to skim over and many more I would prefer to fast forward through or skip all together.
A light interrupted my mortal musings. (Funny, this was taking a lot longer than I had expected.)It was a small light, bluish and faint. Oddly familer, it comforted me.
The distance bewteen narrowed. It seemed almost as if the light was floating up towards me, rather than my body hurtling toward it. Perhaps I was falling faster than it was. Either way it might give me a point of reference.
The glowing light approached. I recognized it. It was a cookie monster nightlight. It was the one which comforted me for so many years of my childhood. A beacon? Hope?
The darkness was not absolute. A twilight surrrounded me. Objects and other memorablia floated past. A tv flickered past. I saw….