Category: Poetry Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN-10: 1795728124
Type: Fiction
Pages: 87
Copyright: Feb 6, 2019
ISBN-13: 9781795728126
Price: $3.50 (eBook)
Slowly starving to death due to an incurable illness, this author has filled these pages with personal blogs and poetry inspired by mortality and hope. Also contains a handful of quotes and pictures by other Gastroparesis sufferers.
Get a glimpse in our world and learn a little about an illness that can strike anyone at any time and for nearly any reason; yet, few doctors have ever heard of it.
Author has an incurable illness called Gastroparesis. This is a paralysis of the stomach and difficulty in absorbing nutrients and water. This book contains quotes and photos of a handful of fellow Gastroparesis sufferers as well as personal blog posts and poetry written by the author.
Excerpt
...I am still me. I exist as a version never imagined. Never wanted.
I lost how I identified myself. I no longer got up every day to drive into another city and dedicate hours of my life to a business. When that identity slipped away, the days of the week began to matter less and less. Purpose slipped away from me. Friends slipped away from me.
Yet, my story is not unique. It's not special nor any more tragic than the next guy's story. It's rather common. We beat ourselves up over it through. We grieve the version of ourselves that never came to be. We hold on to regret as though a warm blanket on a cold, winter night. We shut the world out and begin to loathe all that was once normal to us.
We become who we never were.
We become stronger when we are broken.
We become wiser when we are humbled.
We become braver when we are frightened.
We become us in every broken piece of our heart. No matter what... no matter what dreams you dreamed as a child, you are still you. You never failed. You simply adapted. You followed a new path when the old was suddenly destroyed by a great disaster. I know that you may feel sadness. Please don't. If you are still reading this, then you know what strength you hold within. You may be looking at your life and seeing where paths might have changed and how you are different than your dreamed up childhood version of yourself.
So, be who you aren't. Re-imagine your life. Seek new dreams that fit with the new you. Never give up on that path. We must all adapt to change.
Never give up on life as life never gives up on us... just shakes us up a bit and watches us like a panicked snow globe.
I am me. I am Lori
...This new me isn't a disappointment. Just a detour as I learn to be who I never dreamed to be.
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
