Gaining something positive from a traffic accident
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The link may be somewhat tenuous to some...
In 2009 I bought my first proper sportsbike, four weeks later I wrote it off in a combination of spirited riding and an oncoming vehicle drifting over the central solid white lines
The resulting crash wasn't too major, but I was unconscious for a minute or so, and as I sat in plaster for six weeks it caused me to re-think my life and what would have been had I not woken up in the ditch next to my bike, if that loud "CLANG" I remember as I hit the road sign was the last thing I ever heard...
Anyway, 18 months later I'd bought my KTM Adventure S (think Paris Dakar), travelled to the Elephant Rally, then did ten glorious days in Morocco
All of this culminated in me deciding I'd always loved boats, but never had the balls to get into them, so in the middle of the biggest recession of my lifetime I resigned a safe steady job and went to France to work on superyachts.
That's where my wife and I met, fell in love and ended up back settled in the UK, I get my kicks racing Contessa 32s now, and life is pretty awesome...
If I'd not had that accident, I doubt my life would be anywhere near as full as it is now, and the resulting experiences have caused me to develop massively as a person as well...
In 2009 I bought my first proper sportsbike, four weeks later I wrote it off in a combination of spirited riding and an oncoming vehicle drifting over the central solid white lines
The resulting crash wasn't too major, but I was unconscious for a minute or so, and as I sat in plaster for six weeks it caused me to re-think my life and what would have been had I not woken up in the ditch next to my bike, if that loud "CLANG" I remember as I hit the road sign was the last thing I ever heard...
Anyway, 18 months later I'd bought my KTM Adventure S (think Paris Dakar), travelled to the Elephant Rally, then did ten glorious days in Morocco
All of this culminated in me deciding I'd always loved boats, but never had the balls to get into them, so in the middle of the biggest recession of my lifetime I resigned a safe steady job and went to France to work on superyachts.
That's where my wife and I met, fell in love and ended up back settled in the UK, I get my kicks racing Contessa 32s now, and life is pretty awesome...
If I'd not had that accident, I doubt my life would be anywhere near as full as it is now, and the resulting experiences have caused me to develop massively as a person as well...
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