Challanges

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
-Helen Keller

Ok, she can face her challanges, I deinately can.  I am beginning to realize that EVERYONE has their challanges in life.  Often, with anxiety, I had felt all alone, angry, and confused about this whole process.  I did not understand how I could go from 'normal' to suffering from this so fast.  But once I stop and start to look around, I realize that this is no harder than what many people are going through in this forum.  Also, there are people with cancer, terminal illnesses, and various other afflicitions that continue to LIVE life.  You see it just on this website in other forums and they continue to push on and realize that life is a gift.  Today is here for today; once it is gone, I can never get it back.

We are shaped by our challanges.  The human body and spirit can endure so much.  It is what we do with these challanges that shapes us.  Now, I am not pretending to say it is easy, because I am still very scared and anxious and I refuse to sugarcoat this.  But, people have faced tougher challanges than what I am going through and they have been living life.  

The motivation will come and go, and bad days are still to come, but that is true for everyone on the face of this earth.  This is my challange, and unless it is confronted, it will continue to dominate my life.  As I have said earlier, it takes so much courage to face anxiety and panic, and I commend and am thankful for everyone here that is willing to share their experiences, failures, and successes.