Don't Say This To Someone With Lyme Disease

I hate when people say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Because it's just spoiling such intense feelings into pithy little sentence. And that's not it. You are going through a horrendous period of your life that is truly, truly horrific. I've been there. And I hate to say that I think that it's also one of the more powerful moments that transformed me, at least from my journey. It exposed how much I probably needed to dig a bit deeper into my power as an individual. My belief in what I believed in, my belief in myself. And I don't believe I would have ever been able to last the marathon, that it was getting better if I didn't go through that change. What I had to learn in those moments was to give myself grace in a way that I never had given myself before. It ended up saving me because it was the thing I needed to prove to myself that all I needed was me and that I had the fortitude to do impossible things. I knew that I couldn't do it by just sitting there complaining. I needed to have a purpose. And you can't allow illness and these things to take over. It has to be siloed to these areas where you what. What you can control and what you can't control. So what I'm trying to say is that you have no idea who you're going to be at the end of this. You have no idea who the people in your life are going to be to you. I can guarantee that if you give yourself the grace and you give others the grace and, and you learn that you absolutely can self fulfill and self fulfill with the happiness that you need at that moment.