Chronic Illness Truth #10

I literally just had a conversation with my brother that sounded just like this!  I was chatting with him on a day that I didn't feel well at all, and he was telling me about how sore he was because he was playing basketball the night before, so I thought I'd be clever and respond with that!  It gave us both a good laugh!

Anyone who struggles with chronic illness knows that existing in a broken down body can often be discouraging and make you seem obviously separate from everyone else.  What inflicts a minor amount of pain on the average person often leaves me bedridden for a few days, as is with the rest of the chronic illness community.  It's important to be sensitive and compassionate towards others no matter what, simply because you never know the inner batter that someone else is fighting.

I also want to point out that I often see a lot of posts on social media about longing to be like everyone else and have your life back again.  The reality is that even when you are healed from this plague that is chronic illness, your life will not look the same as it did before you had the chance to experience the depths of this kind of pain.  You'll be a different person who has grown and changed, and it's a beautiful change, not a bad one.

So it's okay to be different.  It's okay to sit down in situations where someone who was healthy wouldn't.  It's okay to say no to certain foods at social gatherings because you know they'll make you sick.  It's okay to have bad days, and it's okay to be different than the rest of society.  Being unique doesn't make you weird.  It makes you absolutely beautiful!  And that beauty is something that will penetrate into the hearts and minds of the right people with time.  So live life to YOUR fullest, not everyone else's.  And embrace being a little bit different.  Because normal has always seemed awful boring to me anyway!

Comment below if you agree and how your illness makes you feel different but beautiful! ​