Tuesday, September 10: Describe a distinct moment when your life took a turn.
Being told that all my aches, pains and other varying problems weren’t in my head or tricks of my mind but because I had M.E was the best news ever. I wasn’t to know how much it would impact me till years later though. I don’t mean it in a sadistic yay I am ill type way that it was good news, it was such a relief that after what seemed like forever someone finally told me I wasn’t going mad. At last I had something to call it. I had something to blame and something to read up about and learn how to handle.
3 years ago my M.E was getting worse and I knew that if I didn’t learn how to live with it better I could soon be living life from a wheelchair…or worse. That is when I went self employed. That is when I finally realised I had to use the word NO and mean it. That’s when I started to enjoy my life to the point I was and still am ecstatic about my life.
I had to take life slower, at a more sedate pace. I couldn’t rush around stressed over anything and everything. I had to prioritise things in my life. I learnt that most of the stuff I was stressing about really didnt matter in the long run and to save my energy for the more important things.
Sometimes it takes something big in life to knock you sideways and to make you realise there is more than one way to do things and sometimes another way can be better.
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