quote of the day: "life is there to be enjoyed not endured", Herrad

Herrad, my dear blogosphere friend has severe MS and openly writes about living with an illness that has stolen her life as she knew it.MS turned it upside down, and left her lying in bed for well over a year. She writes passionately about her love of her life, and husband Richie, and their wonderful dogs. Richie is her primary caregiver now, and every day takes on the care and nurturing his beloved Herrad needs to survive.

While waiting for a pressure wound to heal during that year, she bravely writes about her life in bed. She has lost the ability to do just about everything except for typing, and that has been threatened as well, when her fingers don't work.

Now, she is wondering if she may be enjoying her last February on this planet, and while she wonders, she inspires me through her words.

"Time became very precious to me after meeting Richie, realise now that trying to hold on to time can’t be achieved and only at a huge cost.

Holding on means you do not fully appreciate what you have, it means you are so focused on holding on you can not enjoy the moment you are in, means living like my mother who worried about everything and ended up not noticing any of the good things.

Do not want to live like she did and do not think that I do, think if there was one thing I learned from observing my mother was that life is there to be enjoyed not endured.

Let us all enjoy the moments now." --Herrad

Thank you, Herrad.