Why are we put here? Why are we even alive in the first place?
I guess each of us has to decide the answer for ourselves. Many of us who have suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury ask ourselves this question all the time. Our lives have been turned upside down, and, based on how much work it takes to "live", many of us wonder why we are here in the first place.
Fundamental defintions change and the meaning of life itself needs to be learned.
We all want to live a life worth living...but what does that mean? Each of us must decide what that is, but I can tell you one thing, the answer is going to change from what it used to be.
In order to even conceive of "a life worth living", huge shifts need to occur. Some of the following definitions need to be examined:
Fun
Work
Life
Pleasure
Goals
Abilities
Very simply, our universes must be totally realigned. Everything we bring with us from our old world is now "wrong", and to exist and flourish in our new worlds we must come up woith a new list of "rights". This is not impossible. It IS painful. Throwing away everything we once knew is hard. Embracing what we have become is harder.
That is really what it is all about. Life is not about what we are as much as it is what we have become. One thing a TBI gives you is an appreciation of the power of the brain. Not many people have such an appreciation, and I feel lucky to focus in on that power.
With a TBI your journey doesn't end...it begins again...but you have to open to receiving the gifts now at your disposal.
Peace. J
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