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Don’t Wait For Other People | #makeamemory

“Don’t wait for other people to make special things happen. Create your own memories.” – Heidi Klum

 

I remember milepost 120.

MTM left me on a deserted parkway, fifteen miles north of Jackson, Mississippi. As I took the first steps of my second week, he drove east, twelve hours to resume a lonesome life at home.

I watched his car merge with the scenery, listened for the echo of his engine long after he was gone. Until my sobs obliterated it.

I missed him.
I missed our life.

What had I done? I heeded my soul’s whisper: Don’t wait. I undertook a stupidstupidstupid walk I couldn’t imagine finishing. I rubbed my temples and begged my migraine to fell me. I wanted to go home.

During my worst heartsickness, I stopped and made this video:

And I just watched it and cried all over again.

Almost two years later, I watch myself and marvel at a broken woman who never showed the true depth of her desperation. How I collapsed on that curb and sobbed for ten minutes and couldn’t force my limbs to straighten when I decided to plod onward. A memory I’ll always cherish almost died that day.

Life doesn’t promise us easy memories. Our most memorable events, the things we truly savor, usually involve some pain with a side of agony. Don’t wait for order. Don’t settle for ease. Don’t stop when everything screams, “Impossible!” Watch me in this video and know my glee at where I am today.

Create your own memories, snippets of life you’ll be proud to claim as you swim through tears. You won’t be sorry.

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Photograph Credit: Andra Watkins

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7 Comments

  1. that heidi, knows what’s going on –

  2. Great quote. I love the video and am proud of you for continuing despite the obstacle!

  3. “Our most memorable events, the things we truly savor, usually involve some pain with a side of agony.”—Isn’t that the truth? Pain seems to imprint well into our memory circuits, maybe even more so than pure happiness.

  4. I also remember those times on your walk. We were all here wishing you the best.

  5. Yikes! Two years already? and look at all you have accomplished? Not only your memories, but, all those you have encouraged others to make.

  6. Hey you’re still keeping a blog! For some reason I thought that you’d stopped this. I remember following you on Twitter when you went on your adventure. We all wondered how you’d make it through, but you did. Still love the hat, btw.

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