Thursday

There is something to be said about being made a little uncomfortable, for it is in that place that you learn to throw off your fabricated notions of necessity and streamline your attention to what you really do need - which is not much. When you do not have much and you do not have the means to much, you become grateful for what you do have and cease to be concerned with the things you cannot have. When sheer survival is your only goal, you begin to enter an inner peace.

I know I am still in a really fortunate position, with a safety ready to catch me should I fall. You have to remember that our hardships are all relative. But I am going to try to balance on this tightrope for as long as I can, navigating my wants and my needs with one eye focused on the platform on the other side.

I am going to be a better stronger person for this.

Tomorrow I will regain my footing on my path. Today I am better after a trip to the doctor for which I am tremendously grateful...but I am still recovering from what appears to be a bout of tonsillitis.

For now....