Letter to the Jackass

To move past my Anger phase, I wanted the person who ran into me to know what he did to me.

Not me...

To feel bad, to feel AWFUL about what he did to me.

Yoda zen master not am I.

Yes, it was an accident, but the team we played was overly aggressive and obnoxious - one of those teams who suck the fun out of things.

Instead of taking the yelling and screaming approach, which would only distract from the message, I went for the guilt approach.

Below is the email that I sent to the person who runs the league.

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Anna,

During the first game of our season against xxx, one of their players collided into me as I was running towards/past first base.  I was knocked over immediately and sat out the rest of the game icing my knee.  Since then, my knee hasn’t been right so I had an MRI last week and found out that my ACL was torn during that collision.

What this means is that I will need surgery if I ever want to do anything active and play sports again.  Once I get surgery, I will need to be in physical therapy for six months before I’ll be able to just run in a straight line.  It’ll probably be a year before I can play sports again.  Needless to say, this is very frustrating since my injury was due to a reckless and careless play.

I’m not even sure what happened, but please pass this note along to the softball team whose player caused my injury and just ask that people be more careful since careless, reckless and overly aggressive actions (and come on, this is a work softball league…!) can seriously harm people and really impact their lives. 

I’m not looking forward to surgery or six months of not being able to do anything active, not to mention the cost of the surgery and physical therapy that will be needed – it’s an awful burden, and people need to be careful and aware of their actions.

Thanks.