You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
- #Nightbird
These words resonated with me when I heard them today. The timing couldn’t have been better. I have been reflecting on my life today. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in February 1999. It was devastating and incredibly scary. I was knocked down in the prime of my life with very little warning and no preparation. It just happened. In hindsight I can see why and how it happened, however that didn’t help me then. But what did help me, was the decision to find a way to bring myself back from the abyss. To be happy no matter what was being thrown at me. I think that those decisions together set the stage for healing for me. They translated into every aspect of my life as I healed. Finding the bright side was my nature and went on to be ever important. Life will always have times that are hard in so many ways and we have no control over that. But we do have choice. My choice was and is to be happy.