Dear Rheia,
Daddy once heard about something like this “Be a Normal person when everyone is crazy” I do not understand it fully, until in our living world, when we have situations which turn things upside down, this wisdom of life suddenly make sense.
Let me share with you, when Daddy was younger, Daddy had a Four Wheel Drive SUV which is the same brand as Grandpa, the car was meant for our wood business and easier access to our lands and plantations. Daddy do not worry when there is any flood or heavy rain because using a four wheel drive system and high clearance level of the car, we can easily overcome the small challenges on the road.
There was one time, Daddy was driving and suddenly right Infront perhaps a 200m away from my car there was suddenly a lot of dust, loud noise and there was countless number of timber logs falling down from a 40ft uncovered lorry.
The cars Infront, beside or maybe all round Daddy was in crazy mode, some do emergency brake, some keep honking while the timber log was scattering down on the road non stop.
It was a dangerous moment, even inside a big four wheel drive SUV with hardy shell, Daddy suddenly feel helpless, it was coming right at daddy and cars on the same row as me and that key moment, Daddy tell myself, OK, let’s drive around the log like a racing game, within a few turns, some luck and perhaps act of god, Daddy was able to avoid the timbers crashing down and drive passed the hazard point.
When Daddy’s soul was partially back, there was already quite a number of people beside the road looking at Daddy’s moving car, (i was like driving down the red carpet of an Oscar event) almost all the cars behind Daddy was either hit by the tree logs or the tree logs was lying like chopstick on the road, preventing them to move. Daddy look at the rear mirror, it was a messy situation and continue driving further away from the incident area.
Later that day, Daddy had a wonderful early dinner at the shopping mall, where i was supposed to meet Grandpa for banking purposes, Daddy called Grandpa and told him, Grandpa has to use another route to come downtown, otherwise it will be super jam for the accident area. The next day, when Daddy was reading the local newspaper, there was quite a big news coverage for this incident.
Sometimes, being normal is not a bad thing after all.
