Great moments in recovery for you

[Daniel]

I was sitting here this evening, thinking about what I usually do.....not much, when I felt an urge to be both in a good mood about life, and a bad one at the same time. As such, it felt like a moment to choose between coming onto the site this evening and choosing to post something positive, or something negative. Up until the last hour or so, I had elected to begin a discussion on distressing moments in recovery. I thought on this, then asked why on earth I'd wanna talk about that and then it seemed clear : because I was looking at today all wrong and was in a negative mood.

So, in defiance of my own state of mind, I'm going to ask the complete and utter opposite of what my brain is thinking about : what are the happiest/most significant moments in your recovery to date? Even if it's not something about your health - maybe it's the acquisition of a job, meeting someone special, going somewhere on your own which you thought you never again would be able to - what immediately springs to mind for you as a truly good moment in either life (post illness) or recovery which you are comfortable sharing?

[tobecome]

it has also made me realize how important it is to hold on to what is good.
tish

Daniel said:

it's interesting to me that you mention valuing the realization of coming so close to the end as being an important aspect in your own recovery. I think this is an important ingredient to realizing that doing something to improve is in your best interests. If you don't value such a realization very highly, then that implies a blazee attitude to life, and undervaluing it while perhaps also overlooking priorities.

* Surviving encephalitis, I think, is life giving a break to someone
* Surviving encephalitis with some semblance of improving normality thereafter is realizing you need to do something about things and not sitting on your hands instead
* Listing the priorities you do of yourself above is opposite to possessing a self centred attitude of craving acquired wealth or whining about how crappy you might feel. I admire your attitude, don't change anything.