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A Note to Strugglers: Don’t Let Present Tribulations Define and Confine Your Life

Post by teodroseIII » 14 Mar 2021, 12:21

One thing I have discovered over many years of talking to people and connecting with random strangers is this: everyone is struggling irrespective of their station in life. This is true of the homeless person begging for spare change and the plutocrat who has enough money to buy islands but battles with his demons nonetheless. Pain is truly the universal language of mankind; from prince to pauper, we are all bound by the agonies that come with this thing called life.

This article is dedicated to the amazing woman who messaged me on Facebook to let me know how much I inspire her during her darkest moment she is currently undergoing. Liz, whose real name I’m omitting to protect her privacy, recently had a stroke and is undergoing physical therapy to regain functions most of us take for granted. In her message, Liz noted that life has been hard as she struggles to feed and clothe herself; what really wrenched my heart was when Liz told me she misses her smile because she has no control over the left side of her face. Wiping away tears between paragraphs, I cried as I responded to her to thank her for her kindness and her grace in the face of tormenting grief...continued...

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