I've started multiple posts on this subject, but have discarded them because I started to sound like a blow-hard know it all, but I think now is the time to add my two cents;
I've heard and seen a lot of talk lately about wanting things to be normal again, trust me, I am VERRRRY familiar with this desire, I was so desperate for normal when I was in rehab, I was convinced that once I was home everything would click back to normal, HA! Total opposite.
Normal is familiar, comfortable and dependable, but. Here's what I learned about normal; After something like a stroke, pandemic, etc....normal is different and accepting the new reality and deciding to thoroughly enjoy it, is how it starts feeling normal. Once I accepted my new life and body as my life and made the choice to enjoy the shit out of it, my life started to settle into normalcy, I know things are weird and hard right now, but try and keep trying to enjoy it and it'll settle into something familiar, comfortable and dependable. And once we come out of this scary time, I think what's normal is going to look a lot different than we were used to.
Love,
Your seasoned Normal Warrior.
