my best life 07.10.17.1204P

Time suddenly seemed to slow and as strange as it may
sound, for a few seconds I couldn’t hear anything.
Then I felt it, someone else was in the room with me. My
senses became intensely sharp as I could feel that I was no
longer alone.
I lay frozen, afraid and trying to comprehend what my
senses were telling me. There was a smell that seemed
familiar to me and in a weakened whisper I called out,
“Mom…?”
I slowly began to hear faint sounds around me return.
Raindrops pelting my window, the low humming noise of
a ceiling fan and the faint bark of a dog in the distance.
I had the urge to get up and run. I opened the door and
stumbled down the hallway pressing the palms of my
hands along the walls to keep my balance.
When I reached the sink in the kitchen I threw-up. I
slowly turned and sat down on the floor. I could still taste
the stomach acid in my mouth as I was trying to catch my
breathe.
For the first time a got a real sense of my own mortality
and felt it was time to handle my problem a different way.
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