Kindness & The Blue Shoes

There Is A Better Way

Being born with all my joints dislocated, bound to a wheelchair, spending most of my childhood and adult life in hospitals, recovering from heart, spine and eye surgeries, dying over and over in emergency rooms, coming back to life, going through long bouts of extreme pain, isolation, exclusion and neglect, you may think life has beaten me into the pessimism of nihilism haha, when in fact I have become the opposite. No matter how much life has broken me externally, my soul has been persistent in rebuilding me better internally. Each time my heart stopped, I swear... my capacity for love…

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