
08/05/2025
For better or worse. Most people associate that with a wedding vow or apply it casually to a situation. August 5th will forever be my true “for better or worse” day. A car hit me on this day thirty years ago, and I still deal with the aftereffects. It was also on this day when my date, on our third date, knelt with me on that pavement and promised to never leave me and navigated meeting my whole family for the first time in shock trauma (he still says I never gave him full discloser; I maintain I had a good excuse). There are days when I get frustrated and wish it had never happened and then I stop because I could have lost my leg (thank you for your awesome collapsable bumper that formed around my leg and saved it) and then I am grateful because it could have been so much worse. But more than that, I realize that without that moment to slow me down, my relationship with my now-husband might not have progressed in the way it did. Why share this? I believe we can view many situations through the “better or worse” lens, and choose to view things differently.