Unnumbered post There is something more but what is ist 28 Apr 2021

[RoyceNewton]

G'day, beloved ms family, I hope "YOU are well and living your best life. Today is a question that I have been searching for an answer to for years. Newbies (newly diagnosed) pay attention, one day "YOU" might have the same question.

What am I missing, what more is there for me to do? Surely my life has a purpose? Am I just meant to suffer and stumble from one difficulty to another? Is there a meaning in my life? Have I, am I achieving it? I just do not know. I can not see my direction, my path.

I want to believe there is something more, but what? 20+ years of disability "YOU" start to ask yourself these types of question. At least I do. At 28 having my world turned upside down and inside out has given me a lot of time to ponder my life, its purpose. Where to next, what do I need to do? Am I doing it? I am sorry not exactly an ms question, but it is. If "YOU" would rather reply privately that is okay. I only ask that "YOU" be polite, perhaps "YOU" wonder the same thing.

Royce (your ms writer and Brother)

very confused and lost

[Sandydemop]

Dear Royce, It's ok not to know your purpose...yet. It may be revealed to you in a year or 10 or more. Keep writing. I can relate. I find purpose for my life in other areas but not quite sure why I am struggling with MS. I've been told to "embrace" it. Embrace suffering? that's what the great teachers throughout time have said. Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Pema Chodron. Wayne Dyer.

[twooldcrows]

you have i bet, helping so many people to adjust to living with MS and letting them know they are not some kind of freak for having things going on in there bodies that no one can see and to let them know that it is real and it is because of the affects of the disease and to keep on marching along and making the most of their lives...i know i can say thank you for being who you are and for your words on here to help us to know that we are okay it is just the disease....thank you so much....