Sometimes the unthinkable happens

I sometimes wonder do we have any control over the things that happen in our day to day lives? It may sound very unscientific, but yes, I would say yes. Sometimes our brain leads us to do something that makes no sense and the outcome sometimes surprises us. We may think of the worse, but somehow we come out of it unscathed, saved by some divine presence.

Something happened in our own household very recently. On Friday, the 3rd April 2009, 11 A.M my father took bath and took his clothes as usual to dry. He generally does it on the front side of our house, but that day spontaneously he saw a bright sunny spot over our well and thought why not to dry clothes there? Then he climbed onto the wall of the well(we have 3 feet tall wall around the well and the width of the wall is about 2 feet). There was a cement slab covering part of the well on which we climbed and jumped throughout our childhood. Its been almost 26 years since the slab is there but it has been now broken and can't sustain even little bit of weight. God knows why my father stepped onto that slab, and as he did, it broke into 2 pieces and he fell inside the well. To top it all on the slab there were some heavy duty garden equipments that were quite heavy, sharp and made up of iron. Those things also crashed into the well along with my dad. Then he went down the water and came up and was trying to swim. There were 14 ft. of water in that well. He managed to swim and remained on the surface and managed to raise some alarm to which my mother, my niece, my nephews responded and got some help. Then one of my neighbor boys, who is an expert in well climbing was summoned, and luckily he was home so he came by immediately and rescued my father. My dad came out without any major injuries.

I was sitting and thinking about this whole thing and was wondering how lucky we are that none of the heavy sharp equipments fell on him and not even the slab. Had it been the case, god knows what would have happened. I just thank god for saving us from the unthinkable....