24). Very Small World!

I often wonder where I found the strength.......... I'm amazed at my own self everyday..... Pain is a terrible thing. I envy people that live their daily life without pain. I wish it could have been me, but sometimes bad things happen to good people. I'm good people and thought if I write my story of survival I could help someone..... Maybe anyone!

How much can people really handle? I slowly got to see my life in a different perspective. Things were just happening.......... Strange things......

The first strange thing that happened to me was when , My parents bought a boat. They took it to Lake St. Clair and put their brand new boat into the water and spent the day on the lake with their new boat and having a blast. When the day ended and my Mom pulled the boat to shore to load it onto the boat trailer to bring the boat home, she almost hit the boat of the guy next to her. When she looked at the guy and was going to apologize to him........ She realized she knew him. It was my old boyfriend the musician Jim. He was still playing in the bands and they talked for the longest time. He told my parents he wanted to see me and told them where he would be that weekend playing and he wanted me to come and see him. So when my parents got home from their day out on the lake, My Mom called and said, " You are never going to believe who's boat I almost smashed today. When she said, Jim's name.......... I could not believe it. What a very small world.

So I told Steve that on the weekend that was coming up, I was going to go to the Bar and see Jim play. It was out in S. Lyon somewhere. I drove to the bar and went inside. I sat at the table and there he was...... Behind the drums just jamming out just like I remembered. He had the chimes, the symbols, the drums and he was using every one of them to make this great music. That's when I got to meet his new girlfriend Elaine. She looked exactly like Sandra Bullock I swear! She was so adorable and sweet and we hit it off so well. We actually hung out that summer and Steve and I would go to their house and have BBQ's and we would go out to the lake and we were having a great time. Then........ he was going to go play at a bar in Livonia right around the corner from where I grew up. It was called Hot Shots. Steve and I went into hot shots and saw him playing there. Elaine was also in the band singing her heart out with Jim and it was so much fun! Jim actually got me a painting job for the bar owner. He wanted me to design a new logo for the bar and paint it behind where the band would be playing. I was so geeked and excited to be able to paint again, paint anything! So Steve and I designed some logo's and took them to the bar owner for his approval. He picked one of the designs out and the next week I had my paints and brushes and was up there on that stage drawing free hand the new Logo for the bar. I painted it and it turned out soooooooooooooooooooooo wonderful. I felt like I made my mark back in my old neighborhood. It was an amazing feeling!

Then next weekend when Steve and I went to Hot Shots..... Elaine was not there with Jim. It was this beautiful girl named Tina. I don't know where Jim and her met, but they looked so cute together. She was tall and had long legs just like he did and they looked happy together. It was getting close to Christmas and she invited Steve and I to Jim's for Christmas dinner. I guess Jim had been cheating on Elaine with Tina and then ....... Elaine moved out and Tina moved in with Jim and she had three children. Nicole, Carrie and Nicholas. I was amazed at Jim's new little family. They were all adorable. We did go to Jim's for Christmas dinner and Tina had the house all decorated in candles and a red table cloth on each table and the coolest stocking hung by the fireplace. I commented on them and she said her Mother made them. I told her I wanted some too. Her mother Carol made me some and I still have them and hang them up every Christmas. Tina and I are now best friends and have been for years. She's also had Back surgery and I remember when I wheeled her around in her wheelchair. I never knew the same damn thing was going to happen to me. She then pushed me in my wheelchair.................. How strange is that?????

© Kiki LaFleur-Wilson