It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever

The moment of reading this, I felt extremely nostalgic. I hadn't set out to find my old journals I was actually looking for a new one to jot down blog ideas. Little did I know that I would discover

this A5 piece of paper that would lead me to write my next blog.

My Brain. What a truly depressing and bleak A5 piece of paper.

This spider diagram is something I wrote almost two years ago now. I remember having to write it for therapy and thinking what of waste of time it was. I was tempted at that moment to discard of it, throw it in the bin, purge it from my memory. Why the hell would I want to remember such a dark and lonely time in my life anyway?

But then I thought about it and realised no, No, NO, NO. Look how far you have come, Simone, look how much you have grown. Yes, it did remind me the dark place I was in two years ago, but it also reminded me of who I was today.

I am not the same person who wrote that 2 years ago. Hell yes, I still have concerns, I wouldn't be human if I didn't. But my concerns today are nowhere near the concerns I had two years ago. In fact, I am pretty sure that if my brain today met my brain, then they wouldn't even recognise one another.

What I am trying to say is never give up hope. Never stop fighting, pushing and taking that one step forward. There is a light at the end of the tunnel; although it may not seem that way at the time, I promise you will it will get better.

It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever.

Love Simone