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“What are you doing out there?” I asked from the back door, not leaving the confines of the house because the baby was down for a nap.
“Just making sure the swing is safe for Christopher,” he replied proudly.
“You do know that Christopher can’t even sit up on his own yet? I doubt he’s going to be swinging back and forth in that old tire for quite some time.”
“He’ll be in it before you know it, and when that time comes, it will be ready for him!” he replied.
I laughed and went back inside, looking up at a photo of my grandmother on the mantle. She smiled broadly as she stood behind the swing with me sitting in it, pausing from pushing me to let my father take our picture. This was the last picture he had ever taken of us, and then he was gone, along with my mother, in a senseless car accident that was no one’s fault, only an unfortunate incident with a blown-out tire. The irony of the two things had always stuck with me now that I was older and understood their correlation in the broad scheme of things.
As I stood there, looking at the picture, I was once again struck by just how precarious life was for all of us. Change one thing and you might change your fate altogether. Make a bad decision and shift your entire future in a matter of seconds. I had been lucky that my life had shifted for the good in the end, leaving me here with a man I loved deeply and our newborn son. I didn’t know which way the wind might blow tomorrow, but today, life was perfect. Today, life was everything I could have ever dreamed of and so much more.
