... to put you in your place. For the past week or so I've been seriously pouting. Poor me I am living away from my family and friends. Poor me I didn't get into my dream law school. Poor me poor me. Well, after tonight, enough is enough. I got wind on facebook that a girl I know from college is having more tests and procedures in an attempt to cure, aid, heal, anything for her illness. The last I remember is that she had pancreatitis, among a breadth of other complications arising from it. This girl has spent a good part of her young adult life on opiates because of the pain she has had to endure. She no longer has the ability to ever bear children because in the midst of her illness, the doctors found that scar tissue had encompassed some of her organs so badly that they needed to be removed. And even after all this (I haven't even begun to tell you the probing and testing that's been done to her), she is one of the happiest and most alive women I have ever known. Sometimes I think, wow I am so lucky to not have that. But I don't pity her, well I do feel horrible that she has this debilitating disease. But she is this beyond incredibly woman with an amazing family and AWESOME support system. If someone can go through all of that, and come out better for it, then I can surely see the light at the end of my tunnel and be grateful for it.
I think today, or at least this morning, is indicative of my life for the next 8 months. I can no longer see Mt. Rainier from my window, and there isn't a stitch of blue in the sky. But I'm in law school, a pretty good one at that. And I have family and friends who love me and have been checking in on me, and that means that life ain't bad!
It's my first day of school... and the only thing racing through my mind is... what am I going to wear?!?!!?
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