Rant #3,395: Right and Wrong

I am the lucky recipient of 24 more physical therapy sessions, courtesy of my insurer.

This will bring me through October, which is the one-year anniversary of my first accident.

The extra time will allow me to get myself as good as I can be, and mixed in with all the work I have been doing at home, I think I can get back to about as close as i was prior to the first accident during the next three months.

I don't really think I will ever be the same--as if nothing ever happened--but I am going to get as close as possible.

I feel quite good right now, and I hope that I continue to feel good in perpetuity.

A life-changing experience like the two nightmares I went through does change you, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally, too.

I have learned to be less angry--what's the point, what happened happened and I can't over-analyze it anymore--and I have more patience--quite honestly, because I have to.

Everything takes a little longer to do now, and that probably will continue for the rest of my life.

But I can do everything, which is incredible, because a few short months ago, I was pretty much chained to my bed.

Yes, a life changing experience--in my case, two of them--changed my life, and I am sure I am not the only person who can say that after undergoing such horrors.

I bet our former president, Donald Trump, can attest to this.

He came within a whisker of losing his life via an assassin's bullet, and beyond his ear--which will certainly need some type of surgery to repair it--this incident certainly changed his life.

He has admitted to it.

I will bet that like me, he has had time to look at himself, and how lucky he is to be alive.

I am sure he has a bit more patience now, and is a bit more open to others' needs and wants.

He actually took a call from President Joe Biden, someone he detests, when Biden called to find out how he was doing.

And they both agreed to turn the temperature down on their campaigns.

Will this have any long-term effect on Trump?

It might, because he came thisclose to losing his life, and something like this kind of grounds you.

But he is who he is, and you cannot totally change your personality, but you can tone it down a bit.

And being that Trump is running for commander in chief, maybe it will have a residual effect on those who look at him as some type of god.

Incredibly, this is going to be a more difficult task, because those who believe this way have not had such a life-changing experience themselves.

Take, for example, the widow of the firefighter who was murdered by another bullet shot by that imbecile who was trying to hit Trump.

When President Biden called in his condolences, she refused to take the call, the very fiber of her being insulted by the effort.

It was the right thing for Biden to do, but the woman is so shell-shocked now that she showed absolutely no respect to the man or more importantly, to the office he holds 

Yet, Donald Trump--the very person who she believes will save the country from the evils of Biden--took a call from the President, someone he abhors and is, in fact, running against .

I'll give her a bye now, because she is at the beginning of her own life-changing experience, but she showed no manners, no respect, and no decorum in rejecting the call.

Trump could have done the same exact thing, but he rose above that ... and to that, he should be commended.

Yes, it will take some time for the woman--and others--to understand just how right Trump was to take the call, but this might be a new Trump--

And possibly even a new Biden.

We are talking about human life here--not a Republican's life, not a Democrat's life, but a HUMAN  life--

One that is way more important than politics 

This gesture is not going to make me vote for Biden or Trump, but it is something that we all should try to understand as best we can.

No, I am not comparing what I have been going through since last October with what Trump went through in that millisecond, but things that change your life like this not only change your body, but they can change your emotions and your mind.l and your soul.

Please, take it from me--

I don't want anyone reading this to have to go through such a situation firsthand to fully understand what I am talking about.

Just take it from me, and leave it at that.

I have an early doctor's appointment on Monday, so I won't be at my usual perch on that day.

I won't speak to you again on Monday--

But again, I told you that same thing last week, and with the latest events, there is no way I could stay away ...

And with more events possibly coming this weekend that need to be spoken about, I might have to again jump back on the horse and not take that day off.

We shall see what we shall see.

Have a good weekend, and I will speak to you again on Tuesday--

UNLESS ... 

I will let you figure out what that means.