Making lemonade….
August 10th, 2006There’s nothing ‘brave’ or ‘commendable’ about just getting on with life, after all, what are the options? A few years ago I was given an award by my local MS group, as their ‘Achiever of the Year’, and for the life of me I couldn’t understand what I was supposed to have achieved. I discovered during the presentation that I was being awarded the title because I had started University (at the grand old age of 26!) and was about to go travelling for 3 months. At the time I was really embarassed because I didn’t think that anything I was doing was a ‘Big Deal’, and to me, I was just getting on with my life.
Now that my circumstances have changed, I can understand the decision a bit better, because now it’s a big deal if I leave home once a week, never mind go to Uni and work and go travelling around the world on my own! The less I can do, the less I think I can do.
I heard something recently that I think sums up my attitude “Life throws a whole lot of stuff at you, some of it you might not like, but I just say, Bring It On!” Of course this is my attitude, on a good day, on a bad day I feel sorry for myself and the frown lines deepen as I try not to cry. On days like this I think that maybe I’m fresh out of tears, but maybe it just means that tears won’t achieve anything, so I neeed to straighten my shoulders, push out my chest, and Get On With It. After all, you can’t smile and frown at the same time 
