Would it scare you? Would it make you sad? Would it make you
give up? Or does it make you try to live up to the opportunities life can
still give you?
Would you end up obsessed about the
future? Would you hesitate and feel an overwhelming burden to achieve
everything now while you can? Or does it make you celebrate who you are in this
instant?
Would it make you look back and regret the opportunities
missed? Would you feel the anxiety of the march from independence to dependency? Or does it make you celebrate what you were able to do in the past and what you are still able to do?
Would you feel isolated at the prospect of being within a
body that is unresponsive to you? Or does it make you try to live your life
to the best of your ability?
Would you give up hope of finding someone to share your life
with? Would you devalue yourself in the face of such a prospect? Or does it
make you see yourself as preserved within the disease and still capable of
being a loving person?
Would it make you rage against the unfairness of it all?
Would it devalue your mind as your body is stolen away? Would it disappoint you
that your mind isn't strong enough to overcome Parkinson's? Or does it make
you appreciate the power and privilege of thinking as the tool to sculpt Parkinson's into a life with space for you?
Dare to ask yourself these questions and understand what
chronic, incurable and progressive means. By the very act of formulating the
question, understand the choice you have
in such a disease…
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