No never, how could I ever forget this family? I choose "YOU" because I like "YOU". In someway "YOU" have the same fears as I. "YOU" have similar quandaries. What next? Where do I do now? What is in my future?
No, I do not have to be here. I choose "YOU". I want to be in your life and "YOU" in mine. It was no slip of the condom, no drunken night, no accident that we are in each others, and for this I am glad. The disease, take it or leave it, but if it means I get "YOU" I will most certainly take it. SERIOUSLY, even when "YOU" disagree with me.
Curious question, what do "YOU" watch on television? Do "YOU" watch sitcoms, romantic comedies. Might I suggest that "YOU" may like to start watching some documentaries and survival type shows. No, not Survivor, Alone comes to mind. The Discovery Channel. Very interesting to see, not the eating bugs etcetera, but how people mentally survive deprivation and loneliness. That is what "YOU" want to learn. What does it take to be with yourself, and do what has to be done to survive? Think about it, if they could so can "YOU". So why aren't "YOU"? Maybe not surviving in the wilderness but the mental strength. This condition, ms is life long. For some of us that will mean seventy plus years, I am expecting forty plus. Is it not wise to get every image of strength and perseverance into your memory that "YOU" can. I like a good silly movie and a romantic comedy like everybody else (assumption) but how those men survived in the trenches in World War One, how those young lads survived Japanese prison camps in World War Two, how those women survived the horrors of concentration camps, need I go on.
As I have said before, they were human beings like "YOU" and me. They managed to find a way through, so can I and so can "YOU". YES, YOU. This is a big disease, but within "YOU" resides a strength and determination that says "ms do your worst I can handle it", and "YOU will. I have no doubt in "YOU. There are many ups and downs in life. ms life is no different. One day at a time and go with the flow, nothing is perfect, nothing turns out exactly as "YOU" planned it. Persevere, change your ways. Do things that "YOU" may not enjoy but keep moving. Do "YOU" remember that day when "YOU" and I sat on the hilltop at the start of your ms journey, how I showed you the drops, the cliffs and the rolling plains. Sometimes there are drops, and there are rolling plains. That is the nature of our illness, rolling plains and drops, then climbs back up. There is nothing to be afraid of, this is ms.
For "YOU" and for me. Enjoy it and learn from it but keep moving forward.
Royce (the ms writer)
YOU can YOU Will, YOU thrive
