Having Diabetes Is The Definition of Being Both Resilient And Being Filled With Resilience

Last night I was having issues with writing today's post. I couldn't

organize my thoughts and I must have scraped about 6 potential

subjects. I stared at the computer screen and was drawing a blank.

Then I started talking to myself (which as you well know, I often do,)

and the conversation went something like this:

Me: What do you mean you can't come up with a post for Monday??

That's unacceptable! Let's look at the facts for a second.

You are a person living with diabetes, which means you are resilient

and strong and tougher than most. You come from a tribe of others who

are just as strong and resilient and this whole thinking that you can't just means that you won't.You're better than that. 

You, like all others who are pancreatically challenged, are both resilient and filled with resilience.

You shine because you know what it's like to have your light from within challenged, and come out

the other side even brighter than you were with a fully functioning pancreas - So do it already.

Then I started writing the words resilient and resilience over and over

again. And then I looked up their definitions.

 According to Webster's Dictionary, the word RESILIENT

is defined as:

Characterized or marked by resilience: as a : capable of withstanding

shock without permanent deformation or rupture

b : Tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change

Definition of RESILIENCE

1: the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape

after deformation caused especially by compressive stress

2: an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change

So while we have been changed permanently by our broken pancreases, we have adjusted and 

have the capacity to flourish. 

People with diabetes, much like the adjectives that are associated with both resilience and

resilient, are able to "spring back" and "rebound" and are "buoyant"

when it comes to dealing with illness, depression, adversity or the

likes there of..

And you know what?  I'm cool with that.