Are We Cheating Ourselves?

Living a good life

The feeling of living a good life is quite hard to handle at first.  You wonder if you are truely deserving of living well, even after all the burdens you have caused to those you love.  But here is what I've learned on my mission to stop cheating myself out of living well with this disease, in living the good life....

How to live the good life...

I have decided that I like to smile!  It sure looks much better on me than that old, painful, bitter face.  I also like to laugh, and I mean alot! I laugh at anything and everything I can, and it is quite possible that I crack only myself up at times.  If I am having an extremely good day I will skip with my boys through the grocery store.  It may not be as often as I like, but I will definitely do it when I can.  If I am having a bad day, then I will use that extra time that I can't use doing anything else to do the little things that make me happy whether it's calling a friend because my hands hurt too bad to write an email, or taking a bubble bath.  After all, I deserve it...we all do!

No more cheating ourselves!

So let's not cheat ourselves anymore!  Even though our life may never be the same because of our illness, it's still our life and we can choose to enjoy it or spend the rest of it in bed with the covers over our head wishing this disease away and being scared of what this disease may do to us.  Let's laugh out loud, I mean REALLY laugh.  Let's find some time to love ourselves while we are busy spreading love around us.  Let's sing the loudest, dance the silliest and surround ourselves with the happiness we are so deserving of.  Now, we will not be able to do this all the time, and there will still be days we feel undeserving of it.  Rheumatoid arthritis has cheated us out of far too much already, there is no need for us to cheat ourselves even more!  Besides, I think you all deserve a wonderful life full of love and laughter!  And if you take the time to look around, and I mean really look around...you will find yourself surrounded by people who think that you are truely amazing and totally deserving of living the best life you could ever imagine living!  Best wishes...