The New year I almost didn't see

It is that time of the year...when everyone posts about the past year and the resolutions for the new year etcetera etcetera... I did that twice. So I'm sort of breaking the tradition (so to say) this year. I am gonna post about the New Year I almost didn't see.

This was 4 years ago...the new year of 2007,after my entry into the 'super-uber cool' gang of my older (read much-older) cousin bros and their friends (unofficially , I have always hung out with them...lol).One of our friends' dad has a summer/winter/whatever house in the ranges of Wayanad. That was our destination. Our way,was the famous/infamous hairpin bends dubbed in a certain Malayalam movie as "Thaamarassery Churam". To explain 'we'...we included two of my cousins,3 of their friends,including "M"(my M, from the other blog), and sisters of 2 of those other guys. We set off in three cars...it was amazing,lots of fun etc etc...We were in the second car,M was driving, I was in passenger and his bro and my bro were religiously listening to some crap music in the back seat. The ones behind us had stopped a bit behind due to a flat tyre. So we were sort of going slow,waiting for them to catch up,for the ones to arrange our stay had left ahead. It all happened too fast for me to register completely. It involved a tipper truck coming down the slope at a freaking pace. I remember M swerving wildly to avoid hitting it,I remember my brother crying out to me to duck,and I remember hitting my head on the windscreen...Then..I blacked out...no,not really,it was more like swimming up and down,M swearing,my brother yelling,M's brother L had hit his head on the top and passed out...then...I went under...for good,I thought,if this was dying,it isn't so bad..!!! I came to my brother slapping my cheeks to wake me and someone yelling on the phone...We were wedged between two of those rock-like concrete blocks on the edge of the road...half out into the mini-crevice with the support of just a tree...and exactly horizontal on the road. It was a wait...a hell of a wait...to find out whether we will live or die...There was no way out...If the tree collapsed,we will be history...Well,I didn't have the presence of mind to think all this at that time...My head was paining like hell. It was only seeing M's panicked face that reminded me that there was a very real possibility that we might not live through the day...Our best shot was the other team reaching us before the tree collapsed(we weren't level-headed enough to think of calling the fire-force)...and God know they were trying like hell to cover 30  kilometres in 10 mins...well...it sounds doable...it is...but not in such terrain...So...we waited...and waited and waited...it was...I dunno...surreal...I felt as if I'm living somebody else's life for a moment...you know,the feeling you get when things you read about,hear, about..but not really think would never happen to you...the feeling you get when something like that happens to you...Even now when I think about that day...it seems as if I'm looking over from somewhere and seeing something that happened to someone...

After what seemed like eternity,they...Finally...Reached...and thankfully,their heroic instincts had been overpowered by fear perhaps and they had arrived at the head of what seemed like a procession in red and booming sirens...They managed to get us out...couldn't save the car though...the tree collapsed and it fell deep and long...and there wasn't much left to be salvaged...Well...we caught a lucky break,so to say. I had a concussion and 3 stitches,L had a severe concussion and was delirious for days...He just couldn't believe that he was alive...M and my brother hadn't even a scratch,though the truck had hit their side...as I said,we caught a lucky break...after all it was the Christmas Eve 2006...and we got our very own miracle.

PS: I'm not even sure that what I've written is English.I've just crammed words into sentences to get it out of my system. I've been trying to post this for days...just couldn't seem to find the words...I've had nightmares about that day for 4 years...I have never been able to get over that day...and it is bloody weird...how much ever I try not to think about it...I am forcefully reminded of it in very many ways...