People say things happen for reasons…
And in English there’s this idiomatic expression “Break a leg !” to wish a good luck… and I learned that the typical response to that saying is “Thanks!”. As a English as a foreign language speaker it felt such a strange expression… I remember I felt kind of offended when I first heard it… lol 😂
Now, combining those two things stated above, what if you really broke your leg… ??
“Thanks!?”
In February, I broke my leg when snow skating… I was carried to a hospital and went through a surgery to fix my bone with 4 screws and one titanium stick inside of my broken bone… I was hospitalized for about a month…
After about 7 months, I went through the second surgery to remove the the metals…
I am recovering from the second surgery now, actually suffering from this massive headache that’s supposedto be one of the side effects from the spinal anesthesia…
Trying to look back my experience… I can easily remember difficult moments… but again … thanks to this broken bone, I gained so many wonderful encounters and memories…
First, I got to spent more time with my family and physically and emotionally felt their love and care … I was so helpless and the support I received was greatly appreciated even more…
Also, I made a new good friend 78years young Yoccchan while I was hospitalized. She was my roommate and I heard her incredible life stories and her stand point of life views… It was like watching a movie imagining her life. I became friendly with her husband as well and he visited not only her but us when came to the hospital.
For my work, as I could not move well, I made my debut in office work… You know those accounting and so on… This kind of work is something I tried to avoid in the past… but is also something inevitable to live an adult life… so I appreciate this opportunity!!
I have to say I am ecstatic that I became friendly with likeminded people in my hometown area… Friends are treasures … I was missing that component here in my hometown since I came back from NYC… If I didn’t break my bone I would not have been in Japan by now to have met them and deepened our friendship.
I cannot forget that I met someone I want to date. It is kind of rare these days. Lol Dating life doesn’t mean happy life but definitely more eventful than without it.
So yes… maybe things do happen for reasons and thanks! To the broken bone ❤️🩹✨🙏
Being B•hū•UR 