Danielle describes how chronic pain forced her to reimagine herself. She decided to pursue joy anyway, picked up drawing for the first time despite being science-minded, and found the act of creating liberating, even though she's not skilled at it.
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It sounds dramatic. I mean, I know I was here, but, like, that version of Danielle died, and it was like, well, who am I, and what would I even want to do? And, you know, is it even worth it? Like, being on this earth with this amount of pain that's in my body and something within me just, like, made this decision, like, yes, you're gonna find joy. Yes. Go find happiness. Yes. Look at this as a challenge that's going to push you to do something differently, look at life differently. And, you know, I started to. I started to do things I'd never done before. Like, I could draw. I am, like, what they would say is left brain, science, math. Like, that was me. And I thought, well, I can, like, sit in a dimly lit room, and I can, like, draw something. Stuff came out of me. There's. I'm not a great, like, artist or anything. I'm not saying that that's what became. But, like, stuff came out of me that was really interesting, and I had a lot of fun doing it, and it was just, like, I allowed myself to be creative for no reason.