Life goes on . . .

While checking in with myself I noticed that there were others that are worse off. I received a call from a very good friend who had a heart attack while having dental work done. It made me think that my chronic pain, although not managed, is not as bad as having lupus and the side effects that having it does to ones body. This is what my friend has and even with lupus she continues to live life to the fullest that she can. She does not give up and this has been an inspiration to me and one that I forgot when dealing with the worst bout of pain I've had in a long time. We only have one life to live so make the most out of it no matter what. My goal, when I started this journey was to make it to the end even if I have no chance of making the numbers, at least I would have tried. Life is to short and precious to just sit back and give up.  So I remembered a saying that I use to live by . . . "no matter how bad things seem . . . there is always someone who is worse off than you are."