[ WP ] They say time slows down when you face a near miss or accident . One day it happens to you and time indeed slows down ... and then stops . You escape , but find all of existence still frozen at that last moment .

As the red streak of light grazed past my eyes, time seemed to slip, faltering ever so slightly. Then it completely stopped. The air still rushed past my ears as I fell into the street. 
 
 `` Oof!'' 
 
 I stood up and stared at the car that had just nearly hit me. As I walked around to the driver-side, I noticed the woman in the car had been texting. She probably would n't have even realized if she had hit me. This made me feel much better about what I was about to do. 
 
 I opened the car door, and pulled her body out and sat her up on the sidewalk, being careful not to look in her eyes. The eyes would always bring me back. Something about staring at someone's unblinking eyes just makes you realize that time is stopped. And honestly, I did n't have time for that. 
 
 I walked back to the car, and pressed on the gas pedal making my way through stopped cars littering the street. This was always the most difficult part of stopping time for me. To not notice that it seemed odd for other cars on the road to not be moving. I eventually found my way to the large, bustling train station though. The bright overhead lights of the building making a high-pitched humming sounded as I breezed through the doorway and arrived at the ticket counter. 
 
 I stared at the old man's eyes who was at the counter, and that's when it struck me. Time had stopped. But as soon as I noticed, time started again. The old man was startled just as everyone always was when I popped up in front of them staring into their eyes. I was just thankful he did n't start having a heart attack. 
 
 `` 1 ticket, please,'' I said looking around as everyone hurried to their trains. `` How many times had I done this now?'' I thought, reminding myself of the first time it had happened. 
 
 That day I had just been on my way to work when I was nearly hit by a car, and time seemed to slow down and stop. It only last for a second but as soon as I noticed time had stopped, it resumed and the car hit me. I spent the next couple of months in the hospital thinking back to that brief moment, wondering if it had really happened. In that life or death moment, I seemed to forget that time existed. And that's when I realized that perhaps time was just like certain quantum mechanical behavior. If you did n't observe it, then it did n't exist. In this case, stopping time just required that you did n't realize it was passing. Something about being on the verge of death seems to make you forget everything else. 
 
 With that, I began my journey of jumping in front of cars trying not to notice that time had stopped. Gradually I got to the point where I could spend a few minutes with time stopped. Still, looking at people's eyes always irked me too much. Their unblinking eyes made me painfully aware that time was stopped and always pulled me back in. 
 
 `` Sir? Your ticket?'' 
 
 `` Oh. Thank you.'' 
 
 I grabbed my ticket and headed up to the platform. That was the first time I saw her. She was looking down the tracks as I was walking towards her at the front of the platform. 
 
 The gust of wind engulfed me as the train passed me by and headed towards her. In that brief moment, I saw her fall towards the tracks and even though I was at least 40 feet away, I reached up my hand as if I could pull her away from the tracks with my mind. 
 
 But as soon as I saw hand outstretched in front of me, she was gone. 
 
 What was that I had felt? 
 
 I rushed over to the where she had just jumped. Nobody else had seemed to notice her, and when I arrived at what I thought would be a bloody scene, there was nothing. It was simply as if she had been a whisp of air caught up with the train as it flew by the station. As I peered up into the train's window though, what seemed to be the same young woman's face flashed by. Her eyes listlessly gazing out of the passenger car towards the sunset. 
 
 Who was she?
