Emerging Courageous Online Magazine - Stories
Adversity - by Dori-the-Dreamer
Very often in our lives, we find ourselves in a sort of "comfort
zone", and it is at those times we think we cannot be touched by adversity,
but life more often than not is full of surprises...some of them good, and some
them not so good.
My life was going just about as close to perfect as it could have been, when one
fateful evening in late July it all got turned upside down, by the careless
disregard of a teenaged driver who decided drinking and driving was something he
could handle at the same time.
At that point in my life, I was the proud mom of a beautiful ten month old baby
boy, and five years into my second marriage to a man who made me believe in love
and made my world spin, and becoming the victim of an auto accident was just
about the last thing that ever crossed my mind.
An Angel must have been looking down on me that night, because the officer on
scene told me that I was very lucky to be alive, not having had a seatbelt on,
and being hit head on by a vehicle going at quite a fast rate of speed.
Most of what happened after that was pretty much of a blur to me, but I do
remember the pain, and the long rehabilitation that seemed never ending, but
three years down the road, I did feel I had reached a point of being able to
tolerate what pain I still had, and would be able to compensate as needed.
Time moves on, and while things were never as easy to accomplish as they were
before my wreck, I did seem to manage to do most of what I had wanted to do, and
I went back to accepting that my life perhaps was now again untouchable from
adversity.
Once again, medical problems began to plague me and began to slowly take away my
ability to do the things I used to be able to do, and it was as if it was a wake
up call to remind me that our lives are not always going to be easy.
As I tried to grasp the concept that this time I would not be able to return to
the person I once was, or have the abilities I once had, I found myself again
evaluating my life and considering more and more about was most important, and
what was not.
What was important was my family, and what was not important were the material
possessions that had been acquired over the years, and I wanted to share this
revelation with the world around me.
Through the confidence that had been built up over being online for four years,
many of my online friends had convinced me to share the poetry and short stories
that I wrote, claiming that they very did inspire and were uplifting as well.
Today I am in a situation that now calls on me to become even stronger, by
accepting my newest physical limitations and figuring out how I can live a full
life without them getting in the way of what matters most in this world.
It is because of the experiences we go through in our lives that we become the
person we are, and I honestly now do believe that without some adversity in our
lives, we never really can see how wonderful most of life really is!
© Dori-The-Dreamer 2002