Another Year

Each year, on the anniversary of my motorcycle accident, I try to do something different to commemorate the event. It always ranges to some extent from meaningful to symbolic, but I try to do something that marks the day as being distinct. This year is a little unique because it’s the first time since the accident that the day and the date match; the day after Thanksgiving on Friday, November 29th.

So…I’ve been thinking of what I should do this year because the day actually matches the 2013 calendar. My decision? Do whatever I would ordinarily do throughout the normal course of the day.

My reasoning this year is fairly simple. I had first thought that I would travel to the hospital and give doughnuts or something similar to the workers in the ICU and the stepdown ICU as a way of telling them that I haven’t forgotten the importance of the work that they do. Appreciation is always needed, right? But as I thought about it more, I decided that a better way to pass the day this year would be to just experience the normal day that I was robbed of six years ago. My life has moved on, and I have been able to continue with “average, ordinary days”, so I’m thinking that perhaps the best way to commemorate the day/date anniversary this year is to live my life and do the things that I want to do without the hindrance of having everything thrown into a state of turmoil because of a motorcycle accident. On the morning of the accident I had just gone out to get a haircut. Average and ordinary, yes?

I’m not certain, but maybe it’s time to move beyond this anniversary thinking and allow this tradition to die in order to perhaps heal a little better within. I don’t know if I ever will, but for this present year I feel that it’s time to celebrate freedom, recovery, and normality. Perhaps it’s time for me to ignore the motorcycle accident with all if its aftereffects to a greater extent and live through regular days a little bit more. I guess that I’ll figure it out eventually. Until then, happy anniversary to me.