Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Oh Hum! It Is Just Another Day!

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Oh Hum! It Is Just Another Day!

On this day at 11 AM back in 2007 I transitioned. (Ironically I have a medical appointment with the same healthcare provider that I started with back then.)

I went back and looked at what I wrote on this day.

2017:

Ten years ago at work they were closing down the factory where I worked for 28 years. I got my pink slip at eleven o'clock in the morning, I went home and threw out all my male clothes, and legally changed my name, changed all my documentation.

I wrote this before I transitioned

Trans-

Trans- prefix on or to the other side of, beyond, over, across || from one state to another.
I look in the mirror and I see a woman.
But, I am I.
I don’t feel any different.
Will my past have to be destroyed, in order to live?
Will I still be me?

* * * * *

I can declare with certainly that I am me!

I am the same person.

I have all my memories, they are integrated within me. When I think of before I transition it is just of me and not of a gender.

I can’t remember what it felt like before I transitioned, it is lost in a fog time.

Except for family everyone only knows me as Diana. I have grandnieces that only know Diana and all of my old high school friends I haven’t seen in about five years.

I wish that I can say profound words of wisdom but I can’t, it is just another day.

Now the years are rolling by me.
They are rockin' evenly
I am older than I once was
And younger than I'll be
But that's not unusual
No it isn't strange
After changes upon changes
We are more or less the same
After changes
We are more or less the same

The Boxer Simon and Garfunkel

“We are more or less the same” and that is about all I can say. It hasn’t been smooth the last ten years; there have been many bumps along the road often not taken and as Kermit says “it’s not easy being green” and it is not easy being trans. But overall life has been go to me since I transitioned the positives have vastly outweighed the bad.

I don’t think I ever could go back it would seem so strange.

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Friday, June 29, 2007

A Very Emotional Day!

It's just another day
Slipping into stockings, stepping into shoes
Dipping in the pocket of her raincoat
It's just another day

"Another Day" Paul McCartney

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Monday, June 30, 2014

My Seven Year Anniversary…

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An End And A Beginning Monday, June 29, 2015

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Thursday June 29, 2023

The only thing that changed is my age, and I am starting to feel it.

1 comment:

Anonymous6/30/23, 4:52 PM
Brava, Diana! Great reflection. Thank you.
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You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

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