In mid-March of 2007 I discovered the two most beautiful, fluid, and talented artists I have ever come across in my entire young life. Speaking of young life, it seems appropriate that I acknowledge these two superstars early on, before (God forbid) their "lovely echo fades" from my life's path.
I have been on an emotional journey, learning about life throughout the figure skating and tragic romance of Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, a Russian pairs team who fell in love, married, gave birth to a daughter, and spent their lives together until Grinkov collapsed and died of a heart attack in front of his wife's loving eyes.
While I think these two will never leave my life, and will continue to inspire me in many different ways, in a whole slew of new and exciting/testy situations, I can already feel them starting to slip away. In a good way; a releasing way. It used to be that "G&G" were all I talked about. Each year, on the morning of November 20th (Grinkov's death), I would cry. Each year, on the evenings of February 4th and May 28th (the birthdays), I would bake a cake, or eat a small sweet snack. This year, I simply acknowledged the date(s) within a video montage, and make my peace with the fact that I do not have to become attached, and this does not have to become an unhealthy obsession.
Ekaterina and Sergei simply guide the way for me. They guide me into becoming an honest, healthy, driven, perfectionistic, selfless, strong, loving, and caring young individual that hopes for the best, deals with the worst, and carries on, time after time. So, thank you, Gordeeva and Grinkov! Thank you for being my life, for showing me life, and for helping me celebrate life, even in the toughest of moments.
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