WHAT IS THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL MOMENT YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED?

If someone were to ask you to write in 500 words or less about the following:
"What is the most inspirational moment you have experienced?"

What would you write? This is what I came up with:


There are many significant inspirational moments I have lived that would be worth sharing, but sitting here and thinking, I have to say that getting hit by a car, on March 15th, 2003---when I suffered mutliple fractures to my pelvis and also an open tibia fracture---grew to become the ultimate inspiration. I had never really appreciated my life, or what I was or how lucky I was just to be able to walk on my two legs until I was lying in a hospital bed, for an entire week before they operated on me and I was left, there, staring up at the cold, ugly, boring walls of that Montreal General Hospital room, scared that I might never walk again. I met people, many people, as young as I was at 23 back then and didn’t get to be as lucky as I am today.

It was during those six long months of recovery that I found out I had more friends than I thought I did, and really got to know what a privilege it is to even just be able to go to the bathroom by yourself… By healing physically, I also found out how to heal emotionally. Recovery, from anything, is earned. Once I knew I would be able to walk again---“But it will be hard and painful” as they’d said---Nothing was going to stop me from gaining back my legs so I’d be able to walk myself out of that hospital. Back to the life I really did love. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of “what if…”

I guess it all comes down to the fact I’d rather feel the rain on my face, wait for a bus at -40- and even live through heartbreaks and whatever else that makes life suck sometimes than to not be here to live it all the way I live it now.