I need to say this more often. I thank my women and my joint dog, but I should make an effort to thank others more often. Perhaps my motivation is partly selfish. It makes me a little more to thank somebody. Best thing is that it really costs me nothing. It is just words, but what power they have. So thank you, thank you very much.
That actually does feel nice, who would have thought that. Being pleasant if even for a small moment makes the pain a little easier. We all are on a harrowing journey. I can not feel your pain or all your fears. I will not ask "YOU" to face mine or to feel mine. Just knowing that "YOU" are there with me makes it so much easier. I will do all that I can to make this journey as easy as I can for us. Sometimes I will and I do make mistakes. Not all of them by accident. We all have to learn about the new us. We are not now, or will we ever be, as able as we were once. This is neither a good or a bad thing. Relapsing-Remitting m.s. is neither a bad or good illness, it is just an illness. An illness that we all have to learn. Understand that it is sneaky and devious, with a very large game space that it can play in. I am not sure that "YOU" can know every place exactly where it might attack "YOU", what "YOU" can and should do is have a good idea where it might go. Protect where "YOU" can and learn to cope with what "YOU" can not.
ms is a chess game, a complex jigsaw puzzle if "YOU" prefer. Learn your possible next move or how to fit all the pieces together to make your life most liveable. This is a big game that we are playing, with rules that are constantly changing. Be gentle with yourself and others. Be loving if you can to your spouses, they are fighting a battle as well. I do not understand theirs as they really do not understand mine. Seriously how can they when we do not always understand it ourselves.
They are trying, everybody is trying and I just say "thank you for your effort" That is all "YOU" can say. Be gentle, we all have many years to come to terms with m.s. Give it time, and be gentle with yourself.
Royce
tick tock, tick tock.
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Hi Royce, Thank you for your posting. I do not know you but, I feel your angst with the beast we call Multiple Sclerosis. Us, MSers, are all soldiers as we march on....Everyday is a new day and I am learning to appreciate the day-to-day and the exchanges with the people in it. I am no longer what or who I used to be. Some days I am ok with that, other days it frustrates the heck out of me. Patience is my lesson, gratitude is my goal-(gratitude is free and it makes me feel good to see how my love ones (or a stranger) feel/respond. I have gratitude for a new day. For good or for bad...I thank the Lord I get a new day. A new start, a blank canvas of sorts. Telling myself, keep moving forward (just keep moving..... simple but effective for me. Thank you for your share
Thank you....today I watched Mark Twain..Magical, tranports us to another world away from the sorrow and loss we often feel.Great writers in this group of which, yes Royce...you and the other dear friends here.Still pain, still sorrow MS is still there but what a great gift is another persons inner soul.
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