I had never known how important some things were in my life until this moment. No doubt you will put your value on this and on that but you never really know the value until that point in your life when things come crashing all around you. Until everything around you is as dark as it was for me at that very moment. So dark that you know there is some truth to it when scientists speak of dark matter. You feel like you can reach out and touch it.
The taste in my mouth was nothing like anything I had ever tasted. I thought of all the people I knew and wondered how many were wondering what I was going through. None of them could possibly come close to knowing what this felt like. With every step closer to freedom I got I realized that all of us take too much for granted. I kept procrastinating on saying I love you and doing things that I was meant to do when I was meant to do. I could hear the rescue searchers pull away the last of the debris that had buried me alive in the earthquake. I had every tax payer that employed these fire men to thank for this breath of fresh air.