The turning point that made me humble and made me dressing up the way I wanted without being worry about what others think about my outfit. The old me just lived a casual, everyday, good "normal life" and didn't think much deeper about life, but just took it for granted every day. One day in 2017, I got tingling in my face and went to a doctor who sent me by ambulance to the hospital. By evening, I was completely paralyzed on my entire left side and couldn't even close my left eye, couldn't talk, couldn't walk. A week later, in the intensive care unit of the hospital, I was able to walk 10 meters with a walker, and a year later I was able to walk very slowly without a walker. The entire hospital stay in the intensive care unit and all other care and rehabilitation only cost me about €600 for the entire year's healthcare without me having any health insurance. I'm happy to live in Finland with such good, world-class healthcare. The healthcare is equally guaranteed to all citizens with an upper cost ceiling of approximately €600 per year total. The new me after 2017 has learned gratitude and to fight for life and to be even more positive than before. I have learned to appreciate my health, the one I have left even though it is limited. Learned to be grateful for all the little things that you usually take for granted and to be grateful for all my loved ones. Learned to live life right now in the moment. Learned to no longer take anything for granted because it can disappear in an instant within a few seconds. I have learned to enjoy all the small values in life that one don't see because one are blinded by the speed of the ”normal" life. There is your own quality of life and then another person's quality of life, and those quality of lives are all equally valuable and unique as they are always personal how quality of life is experienced and how it is valued and how it is appreciated. After 2017 the new me finds pleasure in life to dress in a way that you yourself think is nice and that you feel comfortable in. Joining RMRS has been a good forum to develop yourself as well as to learn other skills in life such as how to behave etc. Thank you for all that.

Warriors do not wait for life to be easy to be grateful. They train themselves to see the value in the struggle. Anyone can be thankful when they're winning. Disciplined people are thankful when they're in the middle of the storm. When the pressure builds... They give thanks. Not because they feel good... Because they're still standing. They are passing the test and they know it. Gratitude in pain is not a feeling. It's a choice. It's a strategy. A position. A weapon. It's the refusal to become a victim and the appreciation for the opportunity not to be. The rejection of self-pity. The conscious awareness that every hardship ultimately forges you into who you were meant to become. The world bends to those who remain thankful in the darkness. Be grateful when it's hard. That's when it counts most. ~ Andy Frisella