Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) describes a sense of exhaustion and post-exertion malaise, even when you have gotten enough rest and sleep. The disease is characterized by six months of incapacitating fatigue experienced as profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina, and problems with concentration and short-term memory. The cause is unknown, but it is a...
I have a sister who is my best friend. We could not be more different in our approach to life. I am driven, type A, enough is NEVER enough. My sis takes life as it comes and is happy with her life exactly as it is.
Sometimes I have to be sensitive in our conversations, because when I look at her life, I think so much of it SUCKS! But SHE IS HAPPY. I don't want to take that from her so I try to be careful what I say.
But even though I have achieved so much more than she has in life I am constantly inspired by her. It must be nice to go through life, be a responsible person but not spend all your time constantly considering the 1 million things that need to be done, have not been done, need to be better, are about to crash ....
We are 2 years apart in age but I look 20 years older than she does. I think that is no coincidence.
Here is the thing .. we each have the power to be like my sister. To be happy with our blessings, to not constantly be looking at the blessings we don't have, but being filled with joy at the blessings that we do have. To simply walk in faith and trust that things will work out.
My sister does not lack ambition, she knows what she wants in life and she is accomplishing it. She is blessed in so many ways .. as she expects to be. She is happy.
I hope that when I grow up I will be just like my little sister.
PS : May I send a special greeting to Serce a person on this board who has so inspired me with her ability to count the little blessings in life. This is a phenomenal group and I am inspired by so many of you, I can see that many of you have journeyed longer, have had a harder road, have lost so much more than I have. Each day I am inspired by the grace with which you approach this journey.
Sometimes I have to be sensitive in our conversations, because when I look at her life, I think so much of it SUCKS! But SHE IS HAPPY. I don't want to take that from her so I try to be careful what I say.
But even though I have achieved so much more than she has in life I am constantly inspired by her. It must be nice to go through life, be a responsible person but not spend all your time constantly considering the 1 million things that need to be done, have not been done, need to be better, are about to crash ....
We are 2 years apart in age but I look 20 years older than she does. I think that is no coincidence.
Here is the thing .. we each have the power to be like my sister. To be happy with our blessings, to not constantly be looking at the blessings we don't have, but being filled with joy at the blessings that we do have. To simply walk in faith and trust that things will work out.
My sister does not lack ambition, she knows what she wants in life and she is accomplishing it. She is blessed in so many ways .. as she expects to be. She is happy.
I hope that when I grow up I will be just like my little sister.
PS : May I send a special greeting to Serce a person on this board who has so inspired me with her ability to count the little blessings in life. This is a phenomenal group and I am inspired by so many of you, I can see that many of you have journeyed longer, have had a harder road, have lost so much more than I have. Each day I am inspired by the grace with which you approach this journey.
Ive learned that for me happiness is a sense of serenity with who I am and with my place in this world as just one amongst many, feeling blessed for my many gifts as opposed to deprived of what I dont have. To try not to compare myself to others except to see similarities, and to see what I can offer to others and to life in general, rather than to focus on what I can get from others. To be able to accept life as it unfolds instead of trying to impose my will upon it and to make things happen the way I want them to (which is an illusion anyway).
This doesnt come easily for me and I have to practice a lot, especially on the more physically challenging days when everything can feel so hard and dark. I am grateful for my sense of humor and the growing ability to laugh with myself at my humanness.
I think from your posts that you tap into a similar gratefulness for the little blessings in life. You just take the driven side to a race car driver's level.
Good luck on being who you would be and not who you are. At the same time accepting who you are now, because that's who we have to live with. I make terrible company for myself at times.