It's not always easy, this chasing of dreams and this is where having RA can actually work for you. Living with this disease is hard, but you keep going anyway because, as my father used to say, the alternative sucks. And because you keep going, because the only way to live with RA is to become as stubborn as a goat and refuse to stay down, resilience, the skill of how to keep going becomes ingrained within you. You learn to withstand long periods of having to put your dream on hold while you deal with your body and its nonsense and during those times of flares and pain, you hone a single-minded focus by getting through each day and when it is over and you get your life back, you use that focus to pick up your dream and work on it some more.

Do your best. Dream. Expect great things of life.

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