Goals
Irony, recently, someone put immense peer pressure on me to write out my goals, short term and long... Then, someone also, guilted the entire BuddyUp community into using GOALS as the theme for the week.
Personally, I listed out 7 MAJOR GOALS, and within one of my Health Goals, I mentioned:
Back On Ice, January 2019
The irony is, that's going to be the 10 year anniversary of when I was last on ice.
And I blame a Goal for that.
Without going into a long and involved personal story, I will sum it up with this:
I was playing defense, in Hockey and the other team's star player was skating by at top speed.
He was easily one of the league's best player.
It was a close game, and yet, that moment, when he flew by me, is when he blew the game wide open! I spun as he went by... and did not fall. I did everything but fall.
This was one of those 6 am games. Later than same day, I was sitting on the couch, sore from my spin and not-fall, when, I stood up. that was the last thing I remember, for three weeks. I woke, semi conscious, with IV's and tubes and all kinds of contraptions beeping. The game I love, hockey, put me in intensive care. Seems that the spin on ice, tore my insides, partially, and then that last bit, standing from the couch, was enough to trigger the ambulance and 3 weeks in ICU.
My goal, now, in life, is to get back onto the ice. 10 years to the day that I stopped playing.
It's going to be long and hard. And there will be sore days. But, nothing in life is easy, some soreness is required.
I am looking forward to days on my rollerblades, and working my muscles long dormant, to get back into playing shape. Soon enough, lacing up the blades and getting out on the ice and the rink and the sticks, and sound of the puck hitting boards and the sweet feel of the puck in the back of the net, strings flying and shaking!
... and the love of the game!