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I want to explain why sometimes I will refer to what happened to me as an “accident” (I was severely burned whilst on holiday in Spain; there was a gas explosion in our holiday apartment).
After I was burned, this is how my mum and dad would refer to the explosion; “my accident”, “Michelle’s accident”, “when the accident happened”.
I accepted this at first because what do you call it? Neither myself nor any of my family or friends had experienced anything like it…this was something completely new.
On my site/channel, if I am referring to the “accident”, I will use the word “accident” in quotes; as “accident” implies that no one was at fault (got to admit, I did get this from a film…lol…wonder if you can guess which one)? The gas should not have been present in the apartment, therefore, what happened to my family and I was not an “accident”.
The owners tried to blame us for leaving the gas on. They [the owners] tried to say that we had entered the apartment, didn’t know how to operate the gas, left the gas on, and then the explosion occurred when we returned a while later. Nonsense! We had just arrived!
Ever since, we have been fighting for justice…very long story…let me just say, we shall NEVER give up.
Anyway, getting back to my point; as I got older, I refused to use the word “accident”, it maybe has something to do with the very lengthy and drawn out court case, and my not accepting that it was just an “accident”, you know “just one of those things”.
Anyway, this is something that I just wanted to mention to you.
Maybe you yourself are in a similar situation? You don’t want to use the term “accident”. I prefer now to use “when I was burned” or refer to the day that it happened as…”the day I didn’t die”. This quote was given to me by very dear friends. We were at a Medieval Festival, which they were a part of and it was the anniversary of the explosion. I was telling everyone about it, as we all enjoyed a drink around the campfire. They all raised their Mead to me and said; “to the day you didn’t die”. I thought that this was an awesome way of looking at it. Ever since, I have referred to it exactly as that, especially when the anniversary date rolls around once more.