If you could relive one day from your past, which day would it be and why?

“Live To Tell” (not sure if the song title is correct but it is the main lyric statement in the song) is one of my favorite songs Madonna sings!

I can recall more than one specific day I would relive; if I could.

The first happened May 10, 1984. I was in, what I now know, at the wrong place at the wrong time. I was hanging out with friends at the other end of Warren Avenue in the backyard of the home of two of my dear classmates’ parents from years ago. They had a trampoline! Fun, right? Bad choice…as we were trespassing.

My parents suggested that I not hang around with one of my best friends from childhood (I will keep the name private to protect the innocent!). Because my parents saw her as a bad influence for whatever their reasons were. I didn’t defy them deliberately, but in order to obey, for weeks even months I didn’t go out of my way to meet-up with her with the exception of that fateful day.

I had a “girlfriend” who was also friends with my dear bestie. We would walk the neighborhood; during the summertime, trying to find something fun to do.

We decided to jump the fence and take turns jumping on the trampoline…until the father of my two classmates drove up the road. We panicked. Each one scurrying over the fence. “Girlfriend” was behind me. She wasn’t pushing hard, but trying to hurry me over…my foot got caught between the fence bar and the chain-link parts that had pulled away…I did a half-flip and my arm(s) hit the solid ground…and you might’ve guessed…my right arm bones fractured thus ending my chance at a Major League Baseball career.

The second day was when I ended my relationship with my post-highschool girlfriend.

But…I believe, as our previous theme stated, everything happens for a reason.