Trail Of Light.

I can't believe how soon the end of this year has approached us! So quickly and so much has happened personally as well as globally. Crazy talk! Well, I think it is safe to say that it has been a real year of mental progression and self-development. The year started as early months of heavy lows and true sadness for what I felt I had lost. At the time, it was hard to see past the new label that I felt trapped by and I was blinkered by MS as a disease. It felt like this new thing was out to destroy me, without permission and I had no choice but to surrender. Unless you've ever received news like this, that you have to cope with daily, knowing you can't change the fact it is permanent, you have no idea what it is to chew yourself up about it. I have been lucky enough to come into contact and befriend people in similar circumstances, that have to live with life-long conditions and they have inspired me, pushed me and motivated me endlessly and for that I am so grateful. To a

12 months. A year. And how things can change in a heartbeat. We never think it is going to be us, but we just hear about others suffering and think “oh, that’s sad”, and just kind of carry on. I realise we can’t take everything on our shoulders and I’m not saying we should at all, but we don’t know what it is to be “normal” until things shift. It has taken me 12 months to re-establish what it means to be “normal” and the biggest realisation I had is that it is not this blanket term that we think encompasses the majority. Nor is it a template for us to all work around and mould ourselves into. The reality is, this kind of normality does not exist. But what does exist is what exists for us daily, in our personal experience. I’ve been working on finding my new kind of normal and a way of living that suits me. It’s not always easy and on a rough day, it can be hard not to be angry and draw comparisons to others, but we are all human and just because someone hasn’t got your problem, do