¶ … Pilgrimage to Miami
I remember looking around excitedly, yanking my bags back and forth as I patiently waited in line for a cab. It was summertime in Miami, and I had managed to finally get away from New Mexico for the first time in quite a while. This would be a vacation for me, a Labor Day weekend getaway in which I could catch up with my friends and hopefully enjoy some fun in the sun. But for me, the trip had a more profound, graver significance. It was a test, to see if I even could enjoy myself and my life again. Even then at the airport, I was not sure if I could make it.
The crux of the matter was that two summers before I had made this trip, I had incurred some sort of strange illness. As is typical, no health care professional could shed any degree of insight on it, and I had exhausted my resources going to specialists and general practitioners attempting to find the answers. I had all but missed that first summer languishing in bed, and had difficulty making it through the second summer (although I had noted progress). The trip to Miami was a measuring stick to see if I had fully recovered enough to actually enjoy myself again. It might not have seemed like the typical quest to gauge one's health and ability to physically hold up to the sort of stamina required to hang out again....
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