I saw this picture on Instagram the other day and it really made me think. It really hit home with me. To think so many people have to stay home and miss events and can’t go do “simple everyday things” for the 1st time. This is not my 1st, 2nd or 3rd time. It also won’t be my last. Heck this is not even my longest time I have been isolated.

I have had to miss so many birthday parties, weddings, school events, town events because of my health. I have had to plan so much thinking about how my health will be and what life will or might look like. I know it’s hard to understand but everyone is living what I was when when they were healthy and able.

All I hope is that this brings awareness to illnesses and just overall empathy. I would love to see people checking in on friends and loved ones and realize how hard and challenging it is to be home or in a hospital and what a phone call or text can do. I want people to understand how much it hurts to miss that birthday dinner or have to push it till you can make it. I want people to understand how the world keeps moving when one can’t and how it is time you will never get back and how you have to use the little time you do have. I always try to make it a point to do everything with my heart and soul because I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it again or get a chance to.

I try so hard to live day to day because I can’t control or try to imagine what im going to go days in advance. I think this pandemic is doing just that for everyone.

-XO,