Anniversaries

This weekend for me contained the anniversaries of several painful events in my life, and I think my body knew it before my brain caught up this week. In the years since my accident, my trust in myself and in my abilities has taken a beating. However, in the past year, my relationship with myself and the world around me has utterly changed for the better. I have learned that we are rebuilt in the places where we once believed ourselves to be broken, and it is in those same places where we develop the most strength. Life keeps throwing me curveballs, some friends become strangers, job security is unrealistic, and even the things we do to improve our health can be to our detriment if we are not paying attention.

So what am I left with? An incredible amount of gratitude, faith, hope, and an optimism that now comes less from a place of denying what once was negative, but now in knowing that I can and will overcome the negatives that come into my life. I have an incredible support system that has come into my life, and I feel like in the moments when I thought I couldn’t stand, I have been carried. People who I could never have imagined have shown up for me in ways I had forgotten was even possible.

I don’t know what the future holds, none of us do. What I do know is that love and kindness remain the answer and the way.