You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in your life.

It won't matter.

Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were.

You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you.

Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room.

But you won't understand why or how.

 

Love of love written by the broken hearted,

love of life written by the dead.

 

...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

 

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

 

The human body has three systems of communication: the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. 

When any of these systems experience a malfunction, it can wreak havoc on the body. 

But no matter how hard we try, there's always a risk of being misunderstood. Or simply unheard.

 When we don't feel heard or validated, it can be very easy to forget that we aren't actually alone and that there is a difference between being alone, and just feeling lonely. 

Sometimes, being alone is the only way we can hear our own hearts trying to communicate what it is that we actually want, what we need, and who we love. 

So we can move through this world with better communication when we actually have something important to say. 

And to be crystal clear when we do.

Traditions

 

 at their best, they help us remember who we are, where we're from, and those who came before us. 

They give us something to pass on to future generations.

 'Cause if you don't know where you're from, it's kind of hard to know where you're going.

 

I want to feel what it's like, 

cause death is only going to happen to you once.

 

Pain makes us feel more alive 

Pain is meant to wake us up. 

People try to hide their pain but they're wrong.

 

The greater the suffering, the more terrible the events, the greater the pleasure 

They want it, it's catharsis. 

Like the ancient Greeks.

 

Hatred is very underestimated emotion.

 

We've all heard the buzz words: streamline, optimize, integrate, adapt. 

Every day, someone comes up with a new strategy or tool or technology to increase our efficiency. 

The idea is to make our lives easier, but the question is, does it? 

To really be efficient, you have to eliminate what doesn't work. 

You have to figure out what's important and hold on tight to the things that matter most.

 

When there's no clear path, all we can do is put one foot in front of the other.

 All we can do is the next right thing, and then the next. 

In the darkness, in the fog, all we can do is feel our way through and try to trust that somehow, we will come out on the other side.

 

They say following the rules saves lives. 

But what happens when life suddenly changes the game entirely? 

What happens when you find yourself walking on totally new ground?

Home

 

 Home means different things to different people. 

Sometimes, home is a person. 

Home can be a feeling. 

Psychiatrists say, for those of us who come from dysfunctional homes, that feeling is chaos. 

We think family means drama. 

So it's no wonder so many of us from broken homes thrive on pain and destruction.

 

If you knew you were dying, what would you do? 

If someone gave you a lifeline, would you take it? 

We've all felt it, a moment where all is lost. 

Whether it's in our jobs, family, love, we fear everything will be taken. We close our eyes, we bite our lips, and the adrenaline floods through our body.

 But despite how hard you try, that last-ditch attempt still may not work.

 

 Bravery isn’t always about running into the fire. 

Sometimes it’s about facing our past. 

And on the hardest days, it’s about facing the future.

 

We spent our childhoods writing our dreams in diaries. 

As adults, those dreams quietly come true every single day.

 Only sometimes, we forget to notice until it’s too late. 

So slow down and take it in. Let yourself feel it. 

Because sometimes, even the most beautiful dreams disappear when the sun comes up.

 

try as we might, some solutions can only be temporary. 

We evaluate. We think in the moment. 

We do our best.

 

In 1952, doctor Virginia Apgar pioneered a scoring system to quickly evaluate a newborn's physical health. 

It's given at 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth and it assesses the baby's appearance, pulse, reflexes, muscle tone, and breathing. 

The baby's medical team gets a score for each category, then adds them to gauge whether the baby needs immediate care. 

Designed to fight infant mortality the idea was simple:    if we knew which babies were in trouble, could we save them? 

Tests and algorithms don't tell the whole story. They're snapshots in time. There's not a roadmap for every uncertainty we meet. 

 

we have to look for inspiration around us and find the strength to keep going.

 

Every disease has its unique course it takes in the body when left untreated. 

The process begins with exposure to a root cause that sends a ripple effect throughout the body.

 The disease then progresses, ultimately resolving in one of three possible outcomes: you get better, you stay chronically ill, or you die. 

Sometimes, despite centuries of medical advancement, the disease wins. 

It takes over our cells one by one, until the damage can no longer be reversed. 

When that happens, all you can do is take the loss and move on.

 But when you can change the course of someone's disease, you can change the course of their life. 

Batman-Wolverine

 The Batman-Wolverine fight has been debated and is an interesting one.

Wolverine's claws would cut through Batman's kevlar. Batman could not hurt Wolverine or break his bones.

But. Batman doesn't have to fight direct, his strategy always out manoeuvres his opponent.

I am not sure exactly how Batman would do it, and I would love to see it in a comic, but I believe he would find the strategy to defeat Wolverine

- he beat Superman FFS!