Keep on going

What keeps you going on? What is the thing that helps you face your condition everyday and get out of bed? So many things happen that could take us down, you may wake up one morning with some new simptom, maybe you notice that you can't feel the hand of your husband holding yours, that you can't see the face of your best friend, or that you need some degree of assistance when walking. What is that helps you look in the mirror and see not just the spasm that contract the muscles on your face in a painfull way but makes you see yourself as the unique and extraordinary human beeing that you are? Is it the family? Friends? Work? Hobbies? Passions? This are the things that work for me but mostly I wake up everyday with the hope that something good and beautiful might happen that day. I learned to see beauty in the most simple things: a walk, a flower, a smiling face. MS can take some many things from you but you should not allow it to take your will to begin another day or the smile on your face.
Suprinsingly the MS gave me a good thing too, it helped me realise that I should live every moment as the last one, that I should enjoy every moment and every thing in my life, it helped me appreciate and discover things I ignored before.
Carpe diem!