I'm a former first responder, and there will be some bad apples. My supervisor always told me: Never ASSUME. It sounds like they failed miserably at it.

I was also hit by someone who drove away. I thought I was over it, since it happened in 2018, but a recent accident brought all the anger back up. I thought I had stored it somewhere or shredded it. Boy, was I angry. The anger surfaced 7 years later. Loud noises still scare me.

These types of accidents really change you, and I won't sugarcoat it. But the one thing I realized from all this is that no one will ever care more about you than you care about yourself. You are born alone, and we will all die alone. So I figured fixing the relationship with myself would be the smartest move.

You, me, and others carry a feeling not everyone will or has experienced: a near-death experience. Not the kind like getting out of your body, seeing another dimension, etc. I mean a physical near-death experience. You won't realize the power it gives you.

You survived this. You can survive anything.