"Be where you are or you will miss your life"--Buddha
I have to admit that there were a good many days in 2012 that I wished I wasn't where I was and would have been happy to be missing my life as it was unfolding. That is what I thought at the time, but now that those miserable days are behind me I can more easily reflect on them and see that great changes can come from great misery. I know I am not the same person I was a year ago. There are so many things I learned about myself and about others. No one truly knows their own strength until you use every ounce of it to just make it through one day, one hour, sometimes just the next minute. I had to dig so deep for it that I wasn't sure I would ever surface again. If I know one thing it is that there are phenomenal people who are willing to jump in the trench with you and begin digging you out.
