Have you ever broken a bone?
Whenever someone asks a question such as “Have you ever broken a bone,” I flinch. Why, you ask? Simple. The second I answer it, I feel like I’m jinxing myself. I’m a very superstitious person, and in answering “no” to such a question, I inevitably have to knock on wood. Often, I may not have ready access to a piece of wood, I just tap my head jokingly.
Now, surprisingly, I have yet to break a bone (knock on wood) considering my high level of clumsiness. I have fallen down a set of stairs several times. Just have a scar. I have tripped and fallen in the middle of crossing a busy New York street. My knees still have the scars. I have fallen off of a treadmill. Just have scars. And, the moments go on. The story of my life in a way. Fall, get scarred, and move on.
Here’s wishing me luck as I write this while on the elliptical.
Categories: Fitness, Health, Psychology, weird
psychologistmimi 
I have quite a collection of old scars. Some were surgical, some were accidental, and some were beyond my control as a young child. All were painful at the time, but many were worth it. They all have a story, and each of those stories helped make me who I am. Some have faded with age, and others are still clear. There are obvious physical scars. There are subtle psychological scars.
I do not hide my scars. They tell part of the story of my life. Only the dead do not scar.
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The scars are us
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SMiLes Dear Miriam The Only Broken Bone
my Right Middle Finger Long Ago When i Am
A Small Child Ouch!!!! in A Huge Oak Door The
Way They Made ’em at the Turn of the Century
Last Century in ‘Shot-Gun’ Homes
on the DownTown River Banks
To Ever Last
On Stones
Elevating Them
For Minimal Floods
True Stone’s Throw
From the Railroad Trestle
Really Didn’t Matter Which
Side AS Humanity is Humanity to
me Fortunately i Haven’t Had to
Use that Middle Finger at Least
Not in A Negative Sense Gotta
Save it For Writing Never
Even Got my Hands
Close to Any
Big Teeth
And Jaws After that
Although i Did See ‘Roy Scheider’
Tanning At the Holiday Inn During the
Filming
of ‘Jaws 2’ at
Navarre Beach
at 16 the ‘1st Jaws’
Movie the Very First
Real Violent Movie i Was
Exposed to then So Many
Scars Yep Scars We Don’t Even Need Indeed…
Anyway Here i Go Again Just Electronically Publishing
Another Bi-Monthly EPiC Long Form Poem at 61,512 Words
And In Tandem About 16 Thousand Words or So Already into the
Next Effort
No Scars
Just More
“Wu Wei”Play
of Effortless Ease
FRiEnDS With Gravity
Butcher’s Blade Still
Not Dull Yet Dear Lord
i Did Change Out my 11 Month
Old Athletic Shoes for All the Public Dance
And Barren
Soles
Again
Yep
Here i
Go Again Hehe..:)
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I knocked on wood for you too. I feel like your description fits me to a t. Until this last decade, even will all my clumsiness, I had never broken a bone. I can no longer claim that sadly. I am knocking on more wood as I say this 😀 Best journeys!
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Aww, thank you! A fellow knock on wood peer! Here’s to good vibes
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I fell off a walking horse and broke the neck of my humerus. I’ve had plenty of other falls but at high speed and no injuries!
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I’m not superstitious at all, yet I cringe when people “brag” about never breaking a bone! Not like informing us, like you just did, with caution, but flat out bragging bother me big time!
A week before my 17th birthday, I had fallen off a flight of stairs and had a giant bruise on my leg. I was taking a bath, and my mom walked into the bathroom (totally normal in Europe 😂) so I stick out my leg and show her my bruise, and I literally bragged about having strong bones and never have broken one!
The very next day, I was in a car crash and almost broke every bone in my body!! I feel like I jinxed myself…
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Omg! What an experience! Thank god you survived.
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Thank you. Barely. For a long time, I resented that. Death would have been easier. But I’m here, so I make the best of it 😉
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