Tomorrow is 27th June, a date that has been etched on mine and Mr H's brain forever now. A date that has been written over and over in statements, reports, forms, diaries and numerous other documents over the last year.
27 June 2010 was a Sunday, so today is the day that I feel strange. It was warm and sunny, just as it is today. If Mr H and Django were here instead of in Scotland, today is the sort of day we'd say 'let's go out and sit by a river with a picnic', just as we did last year.
It's almost 4.30pm now and I feel as though I'm waiting for something, almost as if it is some kind of premonition. It feels as though the day is being repeated somewhere in a parallel universe; as if every day is going to go round again on the same cycle, but without us in it.
I know that feeling 'out of sorts' (that phrase makes it sound like a bit of indigestion) is normal on the anniversary of trauma.
I also know that I (and Mr H) have come a long way in the last 12 months, and many things in my life have changed for the better, that might not have done otherwise.
So after this discomfiting couple of days are over, I will be back on the track - onwards and upwards. I reckon that I'm currently about 75% towards my 'normality' (a subject for another blog post), so just another 25% to go...
Ah.
ReplyDeleteYup--kinda normal on anniversaries of traumas, at least initally.
They seem to fade, given time.
Actually, when I try to remember dates of some of the traumas in my life, I'm hard pressed to pull 'em up. I'm thinkin that's an okay thing. I'm hopeful that'll happen for you and himself as well.....in time...
*hugs*