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Hello. Hi. What can I do for you? I was in a car accident in 2012 and the anniversary date is coming up and every year when it gets close to the anniversary date, I start getting very emotional and usually I'm it's not it's June 23rd to see anniversary and I'm going to be in the next day.

I'm going to be in the next day and the anniversary and in the car accident, I lost my mother. So it's who was driving about it. I was.

And what caused the accident?

Mac truck crosses center line to avoid hitting the car in front of them naked as head on.

And how did you manage to survive a head on with a big truck?

I don't know. It was a miracle that I survived. I was severely injured. I was in the hospital for a month. They told me I probably would never walk again.

But I do. I started. Wow.

I don't remember. I have a question. You think if we could have a say on some talk to your mother. If we asked her if she had a choice, which she survive or you survive, which one do you think she'd pick?

She would pick me. I know that. Yeah. Just curious. So you know that. Okay.

You've chosen. This is traumatic past any trauma I've ever experienced. So I'm on new ground here. I can't imagine what it's like what you're what you went through.

Have no understanding of it at all. But I do have an understanding of the mind and emotions with respect to survival.

So I'd like to tell you that you have at least. I'm only going to give you two choices. The one choice you've been doing since the accident.

You've been celebrating. And I use that word loosely. Celebrating the anniversary of your mom being dead.

The reason I asked you about your mom's preference because we can look at this another way. And make your mom happier.

Celebrate the anniversary of her daughter survived. And can walk. And can continue her legacy through what you do in your life.

So we have at least those two ways of looking at it. It's an anniversary. All right. But it's also an anniversary of your mother's choice.

As opposed to her death.

You can actually have a little party in June.

You can invite your closest friends and say, I'm can I finish my thought? I'm sorry. You could have a little party.

June 23. Invite your closest friends and say I've decided to start celebrating my mother's wish for me to survive.

And be her legacy. And to enjoy life to be happy to have you friends.

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