one year

i almost typed 365 days as the title, then that incredibly abhorrent song from rent began playing in my head, with a vision of skinny art school students in scarves and overly-animated faces and wide eyes singing to me, gesticulating with raised arms and pumping shoulders for every sung rhyme about minutes or whatever the hell it is, with a smirk like it's clearly the best, superest, silliest song i've ever heard, while im stuck in the middle row of a packed auditorium and cant escape.

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a year ago yesterday my good friend mike was in a horrible car accident, hit by an intoxicated driver that by all standards should have killed him. afterward, the ICU staff gave him what could be received as no chance of survival.



over the weekend, he got married and is practically fully recovered, considering what was expected. it's amazing. if this had happened even a few years earlier, would medical technology be as advanced as it is today to save someone in his practically dead condition? i still have a friend, and he got married one year after he wouldve died. i think it will always astonish me.