Endings and Beginnings
At the end of 2016 I decided to take leave from my job in an attempt to reinvent myself. In 2013 I had a stroke that affected the right side of my body. I was 30 and newly married, and, as I suspect is the case for most people on here, I never saw it coming. At the time I was a history teacher in a high school, we were planning our life together and life was pretty sweet. As Plato wrote: "in a single day and night of misfortune ... the island of Atlantis sank into the depths of the sea." So began my long recovery, months of rehab and therapy, my goal being to get my old life back. Many times over the past 4 years I have wept to my husband and various friends and family members "I just want my old life back! I just want to be normal again!". And while I still struggle to accept that this will never be the case, I am willing to take this year to explore the possibilities and find a new me. Over the past three years I have felt like I have been pushing against an immovable wall that has been my previous life, and nothing seems to be going right. I don't know just what this year will bring for me, I will be studying and working in a casual capacity, and in the intervening times I will try to work out what my new life will be. I'm hoping that by writing a blog I will be able to track my progress and work a few things out!! Goodbye old life, hello new existence!