Things We Forget

Daily writing prompt

Write about your first crush.

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For my first crush, the attraction lay in my subconscious only. He was a very good friend, and that’s all he was to me for the longest time. We had fun playing all kinds of different games.

I wasn’t even aware of my crush until about a decade after we were good friends. I rolled a car because I was speeding. I spent several months in the hospital recovering from my injury. During my time in the hospital, I remember thinking of this boy. In some of my darkest moments, I imagined us playing a game. This motivated me to apply intense willpower to my recovery.

I guess using this trick to motivate myself worked. The hospital staff awarded me with an Iron Man medal. This happened when I was discharged from the hospital.