What If ?

Was on my way home earlier and as I was steps away from the traffic light, contemplating on whether to cross as it was still the green man (non-flashing mind u), a van just whizzed past and beat the lights!!!

I was momentarily shocked by what I saw.  The left and right-most lane of the road were occupied except for the middle lane.  So it wasn't that the driver missed the traffic light!  There were cars on either side of the road that stopped for the lights.

I was sooo thankful that I and another young gal just two steps ahead of me had not started crossing the road then.  Coz if we were, either of us (if not both) would definitely had been hit!  It was a very scary thought.  And it wasn't like the light just turned favorable for us, it had been the green man for a while, so you could imagine how reckless the driver was.

I couldn't help but wonder ... what if ? what if I had been walking slightly faster ? What if I had decided to cross the road, or run across so that I wouldn't have to wait for the next turn of the lights ? What if ?

I could only count my blessings that this time, I pondered and decided to slow down instead of picking up speed.

Guess this is also to remind everyone to be extremely careful while crossing the road, major or minor, zebra crossing or not, green man or otherwise.  You can never ever be sure.