Just keep swimming

There are times in life when u aren't sure u will survive. Like your life is the Titanic and you are going down with it. But the truth is eventually u weather the storm. It may take months or years but eventually u come out the other side, sometimes a little battered and beaten but alive none the less. That was my life for the last two years. Hanging onto faith like a life raft and trusting the universe that everything would eventually fall in line. For me blind Faith is the hardest thing ever. Things never happen on your timeline. Always when the universe is ready to deliver. If you know how to fall then you can learn how to stand up and walk again. Sometimes it's baby steps but progress is progress. What's even harder is having faith while trying to keep a disease in check that can run rampant like a child on a sugar high. We all know with lupus its ride the wave and hang on for dear life.  But the question is what happens when the waves stop? When the boat quits sinking and everything is quiet. Some of us embrace the peace and enjoy the lull in the storms of life. Others are waiting for the waves to come again because nothing stays calm for long in the game of Life. A lot of times it's about just breathing and just putting one foot in front of the other. No matter what you are tackling. Sometimes it really is about just keep swimming. I couldn't tell you how many times when things were rough I repeated that phrase to myself. Between That and the part from Rocky where he talks about how noone will hit u as hard as life were my survival guides in life. Just keep swimming and it's not about how many times you get hit it's about how many times you can get hit and keep moving forward. Rocky and Nemo my two beacons for reminding me to keep going no matter what. The road will get rough. Thats not an IF it's a WHEN. But it's how u survive that matters, How you come through the other side. At the end of the day just keep swimming, just like Nemo. You won't be the same person you were when you walked into the storm. You will become the storm. Unstoppable, unfalterable, and a force to be reckoned with.