"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."We only live life once. Think about that for a second. Think about only being able to hug one of your loved ones just once. Knowing that you would never be able to hug them again, would you give them a side hug or would you wrap your arms tenderly around them and squeeze them as passionately as you could? I know I would hug them as hard and as long as my body would allow me to. I would treasure that precious moment that I was given for eternity. Sadly, not all of us live our lives that way. We are given one life. One life to live to fullest. One life to love those in our lives and one life to love ourselves.
I wish that we as human beings did not have to suffer in order to learn such things, but most of us do. I definitely did. This is where my recent trials have brought me. Sometimes life has to wake us up from our sleeping state of being and plunge us through the dark into the light, which is life...our life. Pain reminds us what it feels like to be pain free. Sadness reminds us what it feels like to be happy. Feeling alone reminds us what it feels like to be surrounded by the people that love us. It not only reminds us, it changes us. The blue sky looks clearer, the green grass smells fresher. We wake up.
Information about Familial Adenomatous Polyposis at: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=familialadenomatouspolyposis
