My goal this year is to smash up my concept of what I think is a happy life. Step out of the rubble, and enjoy a wider kind of freedom that many healthy people never approach.
Those are some motivating words right there.... thanks for sharing this.
My downhill slide started with a sore knee, and I remember feeling completely freaked out the day after I'd skipped a NSAID when I felt 100yrs old and discovered that my entire body ached. Diagnosis... I had figured out by then that I had some kind of arthritis, but I still felt as though my world had collapsed. Knowing that there was really something wrong allowed me to be a bit kinder to myself and made me focus on what was really important. But I was also scared at what the future might hold...
