Blog Post 5 - What’s this going to take, and do I have what it takes?

You awake in a stupor. Just what are you doing? Laying in a hospital bed, vision clouded by fluorescent lights overhead, and your head wrapped tightly in bandages like a mummy?

Hopefully, you have or had loved ones nearby that immediately noticed and rejoiced you coming to. Where are you, and what happened? You have one hell of a story coming your way, and then a flood of memories may, or may not come rushing back with it.

For me, it didn’t all magically return to me like that. I can’t say how it’s supposed to go, but it took a while for me to put the pieces back together again.

The moments leading up to the actual accident drifted through my mind. “Oh! That’s what I could’ve done differently!” Pangs of regret and sorrow for my foolishness then overwhelmed me as I overanalyzed how I could’ve avoided my current predicament, which is very easy to do when you have the ability to look back and formulate how you could’ve avoided “ruining” and rewriting the course of your life.

If that was possible, think of all the moments in your life that you would’ve put that ability to use.

No, it’s only when you’ve done almost irreparable damage to your life that you long so hard to rewind and do it over again, except differently this time.

Well, if your accident/injury was your fault, where was this judgment and wisdom at the time?

You can’t blame yourself for a split-second incident that may have been very much out of your control.