For better or for worse, life is all about timing. Have you ever been in a situation where it later came to your attention that your life would have looked drastically different if you weren’t there in that moment? Most of the time, we don’t even realize when a situation might have completely altered our life path. People took to the Internet to share their stories of the different times they somehow got away from a potentially terrifying situation, and they remind us that there is a silver lining to everything in life.
#1: To the Left, to the Left…
Is there anything more terrifying and freeing than realizing you have just narrowly escaped something terrible? Even though many of us have probably escaped many bad situations before, we aren’t always made aware of what might have happened if we weren’t so lucky.
Well, this girl was… After having lost control of her snowboard while on a holiday in Colorado, she collided with a tree, which resulted in some pretty bad injuries. However, the surgeon who treated her told her that if her femur had broken slightly more to the left, it would have ruptured an artery, and she would have bled to death.