Soccer + Toronto Maple Leafs Game + Stresses About the Future

Date #863 — Wednesday, July 6, 2016

B: It was the first Wednesday since A’d been back and thus her first Discover Your Wild night since she’d been back. I’d been running this event while she’d been away and it was nice to have A around again.

This night we’d be playing soccer at U of T and the University of Toronto Outdoor Club was running things.

Because I still didn’t have a bike I suggested to A that she bike there and I would walk. When it was time to go A said, “we’ll walk together,” and I said, “we would have had to leave now for that to be possible.” A wasn’t ready and I didn’t want to be late. I said, “I’m going to start running. I’ll meet you there.” I threw on my bag and I ran the 5km to the field.

I’d been training for an upcoming mountaineering camp we’d be going on and running was a big part of the training, so it felt good to just start a 5km without any prep and feel OK.

When A got there I was frustrated by other things but knew we couldn’t talk about it during event.

On our walk home I explained to A my frustrations and that it didn’t have anything to do with her. I knew it was important to not take my frustrations out on her. I held everything back until we could talk and I let her know why I’d been so quiet earlier. It was nice to be able to open up.

A: Once a month we try to team up with UTOC to host Discover Your Wild and this week we played soccer. It was so fun making up games and taking turns on the net. I used to play soccer in high school — 4 years of my life — and it was fun to handle a ball again. I forgot how much I liked it.

On the way home B and I stopped to watch a bit of the Maple Leafs game in Christie Pits but we got cold so we went home. It’s so awesome to have the option to just pull over on our bikes to watch a baseball game near our house. It’s things like this that make me think I could never leave Toronto…

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