This is about to get a little bit personal so if you're here for the cars, probably stop reading.
June 6th marked the one year anniversary since the accident that was the demise of my first 86. If you're a follower of this thread you will know that It affected me very deeply. What I've never gone into here, is what's happened in my personal life since. One day, a few weeks after the accident, I was reading something Gerard Way, former My Chemical Romance lead singer, had written. Say or think what you like about the man or the music he has made, but he's always been an inspiration to me. Here's the bit that matters...
I had a conversation, with someone important to me, who was life-threateningly ill. They said to me one thing that was the most important.
“Everything is temporary. When you’re happy- it’s temporary. Sad? Temporary. Job? Temporary. Bought a house? It’s only yours until you no longer need it. “
There were two ways to look at it- happy or sad. But everything was temporary.
In your worst moments, where you are staring into the blackest hole, the razor-lined mouth of a vicious, rabid animal- when you aren’t good enough, pretty enough, thin enough, smart enough- when the worst thing inside you chooses to attack- it is temporary. Likewise, when you are in those moments of pure joy, surrounded by your loved ones, high scoring skee-ball, holding your best friends hand at a concert- it is also temporary.
And that is ok.
It is life, and living, or the closest thing to it...
Those words just completely resonated with me in a way that nothing ever had before or probably will again. The next day I woke up determined to stop feeling sorry for myself and start improving my life.
In the next 6 months I lost over 20kg, moved out of home, entered my first serious relationship, become far more healthy, fit happy and relaxed and just started to enjoy life more. I could write a novel on how each of these things came about, but all were entirely motivated and driven by the realisation that everything is temporary. In the wake of the accident, those words completely changed my life. Obviously they mean a lot to me.
So when I decided to have a sticker made up to commemorate the loss of the 86 I knew immediately that those words needed to be included. I sat down, first with pen and paper, then keyboard and mouse and put together something I liked and sent it off to Jay who recreated it and made them into a reality.
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