‎”Meet up with your fears. If you respect fear, face it straight on and act anyway, what you’ll find isn’t terror – it’s exhilaration and the moments that you’ll never forget.” – Laird Hamilton

I AM closer, and in facing it head-on, I am positively excited (and optimistic) over my life rather than existing in a state of fear. Instead of thinking “woe is me; the pain is so intense that I have to use a wheelchair”, my new thought is “this is great; I’m going to build some serious arm muscle and get a nice cardio-workout”. Instead of thinking that I can’t do a certain something, I marinate on creative ways in which I can. A turn-around in thought is an incredible and valuable gift – to myself, from myself; Merry Christmas 2011, Rebecca. A new way of looking at circumstance is indeed a precious gift. With this, I am most certainly closer than I was yesterday, last week, last month, or last year. Hell, I am closer than I was years ago in a perfect physical casing because of the inner depth which I was previously lacking. Certainly a blessing! ♥