The Philosophical Phenomenon

I was going to put out the next part of my story today; however, I didn’t realize - when I originally said that - that it was going to be 9/11 today. It was 17 years ago, but I can still tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing. I feel like many people forget how crazy that day was, I feel like some are so against America right now, that they don’t appreciate what this day meant to millions of families. We were not in a war, we were attacked, and we really weren’t su

When we are scared we have three reactions, fight, flight, or freeze. I’ve always been a fighter. I’ve always been stubborn and a know-it-all. I felt I had deserved the right to have control over my body, to make decisions over my body. I had spent my life asking questions and learning about my myself and my disease. Many times I have thought I knew more than the doctors taking care of me. I have always depended on myself to know what’s best for me, and I don’t often listen i

I always knew my physical body was just a vessel for my soul, carrying it, keeping it safe. I’ve often thought over the years how our consciousness is like an alien being attached to our human host; however, some of the human bodies we inhabit seem to work better than others. We can survive on this planet as an animal, as a human, but what about after our consciousness leaves our body behind? Will we no longer be bound by earthly things? Do we attach ourselves to some new bod

An invisible illness is one where people can’t see it. In this instance I’m not talking about mental illnesses - although they are very real for some people - I’m talking about a physical illness that is invisible. You may be curious as to how something can be both physical and invisible, but the truth is many people with life threatening, chronic diseases do not even look sick. Such as myself, if I want to look “normal” I can do so with very little effort. I may look tired o