Be a stone in the river.

When you have a Chronic condition, any disability or illness or trouble that lasts longer than other people have patience for, they often talk up how great it is for you to always be fighting, always "keep fighting this". Guess what?

They mean well but that is *exhausting* and irrational to expect.

 I'm not saying give up, I am saying you do not have to fight all the time. No one can be in an aggressive mode every day, "inspirational" only when thrashing about against the current. Sit in the current. Be a stone in the river. Let the river go past. 

“Heaven is where you are standing, and that is the place to train.” Aikido founder O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba.

I’m not saying you have to be pleased to be where you are. Being sick or disabled in some way often just sucks. It isn’t sunshine and rainbows.

But it is where you are right now, and it might help to know
that you do not have to wait to be happy
until you get better.
You can be happy or at least At Peace in some ways here and now.

Once more: You do not have to wait to be happy
until some future or impossible time when you get better.

You don’t always have to be “fighting”. You deserve to have peace now. Let yourself have it.

Chronic Conditions- I don't have to "Overcome" every "Trial"

Whenever the subject of a "trial" or chronic illness or condition comes up, the popular reaction is:
“You need to fight this!”

Uh, no I don’t.

I won’t let it run my life but I’m not going to spend every day fighting.

That’s ridiculous.  No one can do that.

There is no point in doing that, except to satisfy some expectation you have of me that I should get rid of this thing because it is uninvited, or because it is disliked by you.

I am going to go on with my life, in the way dictated by my conscience, and It will not go away. It is part of my lot in life. I accept it.

I have things to do, if you don’t mind, and my Life is for Living. I do not have time to “Fight This.” I have to go do things now. My work will not do itself.