Someone Else’s Near Death Experience Changed Me
One of My Favorite Stories to Mark the 1st Anniversary of BMT
I made my first post on Medium under the Bonnie’s Mixed Tape publication exactly a year ago, October 15, 2017.
In honor of the first anniversary of my writing publicly, I’m sharing one of my very favorite personal stories (with accompanying song, natch).
It’s one of the most defining moments of my life and altered me in such a profound way that I still feel its effects to this day.
Obviously being a parent, getting married (and divorced), and a number of other life events have been life-changing.
In fact, I suppose I should say one of those other experiences is my most transformative, but in some ways what I am about to share is the most impactful moment of my life.
Just a regular day. During my grad school days. I must have been 22 or 23.
I was far away from my friends and family. E-mail was still a few years away, so a letter or phone call was the only means of communication to connect me with that part of my life.
An old high school pal (I’ll call him “T”) called me on the phone. He was still in Florida and would call from time-to-time to catch me up on his and our mutual friends’…
