Robins

Hi, this is my first time of posting (although I have been a lurker for many months) and am unsure what to read into this, if anything. Long story short, I've had a rough few years for a variety of reasons and with no sign of things easing any time soon. One of the things that happened a few years ago was that somebody took out the rear of my car whilst I was stationary in traffic - they wrote it off and it left me requiring physio for a couple of years. All healed now, or so I thought. On Thursday, I was again stationary in traffic on my way to work, when a van towing a large trailer ploughed into the back of me. As I'd just dropped off my child, when my car was shunted forwards I lost sight of her and believed, for a couple of seconds, that she had gone beneath its wheels. The shock was utterly, utterly horrendous - I've been a single parent since she was 3. (She hadn't, she was clear of it all.) To say that I temporarily fell apart would be understating things. After exchanging details with the other driver and a witness who came to see if I was okay and stayed until he was sure I didn't need the hospital, (bless that young man), I finally got the car into the college grounds to get it off the road. Immediately after I parked up, a scruffy little robin flew on to the fence immediately in front of me, locked eyes with me and stayed there despite all the other people being around. It calmed me down. (And yes, I know that makes me sound like a bit of an oddball, but it didn't take its eyes from me and I couldn't take my eyes from it.) It stayed there for quite some time, ignoring everyone else but me. Yes, my hip is back to requiring more physio, I have had a headache ever since and my neck is sore - but that little bird was hypnotic. I normally disregard stories like this - I lost the vast majority of my family at a young age and have problems believing that there is anything 'good' to follow when there is so much bad that happens here. In truth, I don't know why I'm telling you all about this - except, perhaps, a need to get it off my chest and say that life can be strange. Has anything like this ever happened to any of you (the robin thing, I mean)?