Simple Miracles

It’s a taken-for-granted experience to be able to chew food and swallow. I dare to point out that the phenomenal pleasure of taste is immeasurably important. I have lost both, and I am excited to have regained some degree of masticating.

The many incremental losses have been cruel and devastating. How gruesome was my agony to lose my mobility and to frantically scurry about to find my substitute called a wheelchair? Though welcomed, it pales compared to standing on my own two feet. I don’t want to increase your despair. I want to raise your mindfulness of your many abilities and blessings.

However long-lasting they are, be grateful that you have some of the many practical and useful resources, such as functional feet and fingers. How about giving thanks for strength? I remember grieving the loss of the ability to raise a glass of drink to my mouth and becoming good friends with the straw.

All of these recollections would be an endless mental stroll down Depletion Drive, except that I am too busy traveling up Adjustments Avenue. Whatever disease has taken, I have gained monumental access to a world of appreciation. Entering with enthusiasm, my focus is on utilizing what is left. Use it and lose it later by using it now.

I am advocating that we live more and more in the moment. It’s okay to hope for a better day Simplysaidbysimon, but it is far more important to make today better. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir. The wish for healing has always been the half of health. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Being grateful for what you have is also a large part of mental and physical health. Praise; ALS – Awesome Lasting Sounds. Thanks, Gwen.