Perspective

At the moment, I’m trying to get back in to working. I hope my time of hospitals and surgeries is done. But finding a new job is a hard process. Nothing annoys me more than people saying, if you really wanted it, you would have found a job by now. I have been starting to notice a lot of things are all about perspective. Honesty is key. I am (too?) honest. Refusing to hide my accident, refusing to lie on my resume about my time after the accident. Even tho this was asked of me to do. I consider this stupid. If people Google my name, they will find my accident in the paper, they will find the truth. So I am sticking to my way, which has always been the truth! There is the negative side. What if she can’t handle work? What if she needs more surgery, and I am left with no employee? What if…. is the mother of all anxiety. Because I also sometimes think what if….. It’s easy to fall in to the negative. It is always there. Read a newspaper. Start your day on your Facebook timeline. Unless you follow positive quotes and pages, Lees meer…

The Article

Here, a big red button, a tiny article. In my life, the biggest change and even more to come. Today I decided I wanted to write up some more of this story. Maybe I can help someone with it. Maybe I can help myself. Two more weeks till the three-year mark. Today was April 24th 2017 I had a lovely job at a garden centre in Prinsenbeek. Happy colors all day long. I was a cashier. It was a Monday, like all Mondays. Went to the supermarket to get some food for lunchtime and drove of to work. I had a black 25km/h scooter. Loved and hated that little thing. I remember hearing Christina Aguilera on my headphones. One of the songs from Burlesque. One in my ear, one out to hear traffic. Stupid tunnels in the Haagse Beemden still closed, so taking the longer route. Just before the McDonald’s I cross the road, and then I’m almost at station Prinsenbeek. That’s where it all went south. One minute I’m driving along, the other I’m on the pavement. It was sunny, I remember the blue skies as I was laying on the pavement… As i went to cross the road Lees meer…