My life has not gone the way I intended it to but I am getting on a track, if not the one I originally planned. I feel like I lost a decade of my life to this illness, a decade of pain and loss. I'm not completely stable right now, mainly due to the stress of school, but I am functional, most days. I'm BSc in Nursing and I think that I probably wouldn't have chosen the degree otherwise.

My attitude towards my past does suck sometimes, and I have to remind myself I am not a failure simply because I have yet to complete a degree. I see my siblings, cousins and friends graduating and in professional jobs and I am jealous.

I practice accepting where I am because, no matter what happened, or didn't, in the past, the only thing I can change is the present and my reaction to it. I'm focusing on where I am and where I am going rather than where I've been because I've found it's the only way to live my life. I think there is nothing wrong with diverging from what you planned if it's a good life, because I think that accumulation a multitude of experience is a purpose in my life, if not the only.

"Forget regret, or life is your to miss" - quoted from Rent.