You said, "If we met our steepest challenge of the day -- and yet it was a solitary action -- no one knows."
This is maybe the aspect that kills me the most. And I am not even totally alone, I have a family who cares about me. I can't imagine what that is like for chronic people who are living alone. It makes my blood run cold.
Have you also been, or are you, chronically ill? You certainly sound like you have the inside track, yourself.
I've been astonished by the response I've gotten to this article, here on EmpowHer, and on my own website, Ncubator. What I keep hearing, is, yes, this is how we feel; this is what it's like for us.
I was making dinner one night when the first line of this article appeared in my head. It's something I heard years ago, an old proverb, or beginning of an old joke, I can't remember which, that's how long ago.
And I realized, that is what I am going through right now. This sentence is the perfect analogy for what I am going through. And as I made dinner it began writing itself in my head.
It didn't get written down for months. But when I started writing for EmpowHer, and opened my own site, that gave me the extra push to write it down. And, I just wrote how I felt. What it was like for me.
Awesome to get the response, to find that so many other people feel the same.
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Hi Diane
You said, "If we met our steepest challenge of the day -- and yet it was a solitary action -- no one knows."
This is maybe the aspect that kills me the most. And I am not even totally alone, I have a family who cares about me. I can't imagine what that is like for chronic people who are living alone. It makes my blood run cold.
Have you also been, or are you, chronically ill? You certainly sound like you have the inside track, yourself.
I've been astonished by the response I've gotten to this article, here on EmpowHer, and on my own website, Ncubator. What I keep hearing, is, yes, this is how we feel; this is what it's like for us.
I was making dinner one night when the first line of this article appeared in my head. It's something I heard years ago, an old proverb, or beginning of an old joke, I can't remember which, that's how long ago.
And I realized, that is what I am going through right now. This sentence is the perfect analogy for what I am going through. And as I made dinner it began writing itself in my head.
It didn't get written down for months. But when I started writing for EmpowHer, and opened my own site, that gave me the extra push to write it down. And, I just wrote how I felt. What it was like for me.
Awesome to get the response, to find that so many other people feel the same.
Thanks, Diane.
May 28, 2009 - 8:49amThis Comment
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