Saturday, December 30, 2006
A YEAR TO REMEMBER?
Another year gone.
Hrumph............
Don't have much to show for it really.
I'm down a bike and riding gear.
I'm up a laptop and some digital camera gear
I'm down on mobility, but up on internal body jewellery and external scarring.
The blog's nearly one year old and has turned out completely different than I anticipated.
Come to think of it, not much at all has turned out the way I anticipated it this year.
If all this sounds a bit on the melancholic side then it's probably about right.
I don't know what to make of a year when something you really like and enjoy is taken away from you and something you take for granted is also denied you.
The only motorcycling I've done in the past 9 months has been in the safety of unconscious dreaming and the only walking has been has been like some pathetic imitation, impossible without the use of various mechanical devices.
You do not suffer these events alone for there are always well wishing friends and family to help pull you along, but in the end it's down to just you and your impairments.
How you deal with them, or not, is something only you have any real power or control over.
The pain can sometimes be the only thing you have to amuse / occupy yourself with and in turn, the only challenge left, which you can try to overcome.
It's a mind game.
You versus your body versus your brain.
Like in life, you don't always win, but better to have played the game and learnt something about yourself than never attempted to because it's too scary, or too hard.
That came out a bit preachy didn't it.
Oh well.
Like I tell myself, there's always someone worse off than you.
So deal with it.
To all who have read the blog, offered help and support, visited me, sent good vibes my way, sent books, music, chocolates, beer and other delectables, got me out of the hospital and out of the city on various occasions, I hope you all have a fantastic 2007 and that your kindness comes back to you tenfold.
To all those I met in rehab, I hope your 2007 is a shitload better than 2006, may your bodies repair as fast as possible and your life return to 'relative' normality.
Happy New Year.........
Rockin' on into 2007
.
Hrumph............
Don't have much to show for it really.
I'm down a bike and riding gear.
I'm up a laptop and some digital camera gear
I'm down on mobility, but up on internal body jewellery and external scarring.
The blog's nearly one year old and has turned out completely different than I anticipated.
Come to think of it, not much at all has turned out the way I anticipated it this year.
If all this sounds a bit on the melancholic side then it's probably about right.
I don't know what to make of a year when something you really like and enjoy is taken away from you and something you take for granted is also denied you.
The only motorcycling I've done in the past 9 months has been in the safety of unconscious dreaming and the only walking has been has been like some pathetic imitation, impossible without the use of various mechanical devices.
You do not suffer these events alone for there are always well wishing friends and family to help pull you along, but in the end it's down to just you and your impairments.
How you deal with them, or not, is something only you have any real power or control over.
The pain can sometimes be the only thing you have to amuse / occupy yourself with and in turn, the only challenge left, which you can try to overcome.
It's a mind game.
You versus your body versus your brain.
Like in life, you don't always win, but better to have played the game and learnt something about yourself than never attempted to because it's too scary, or too hard.
That came out a bit preachy didn't it.
Oh well.
Like I tell myself, there's always someone worse off than you.
So deal with it.
To all who have read the blog, offered help and support, visited me, sent good vibes my way, sent books, music, chocolates, beer and other delectables, got me out of the hospital and out of the city on various occasions, I hope you all have a fantastic 2007 and that your kindness comes back to you tenfold.
To all those I met in rehab, I hope your 2007 is a shitload better than 2006, may your bodies repair as fast as possible and your life return to 'relative' normality.
Happy New Year.........
Rockin' on into 2007
.
