 I recently read this story online of one of the worst tragedies that I'd seen or even really heard of in my recent life. It was the story of this woman who had this great professional job and she had been going after what she thought a hard work dream hustle was for her. Now after about 10 or 15 years of working hard in her professional career, she became a doctor and eventually after about seven years of her clinical practice was diagnosed with a very aggressive and very rare form of metastatic breast cancer that had already been treated once and now had come back and had metastasized throughout her body and she'd been given a terminal diagnosis. Now this woman was only in her early 40s and I recently made a connection with her and I saw some of the things she did posting online as I read about her story and her life during these COVID years and one of the things that made me really sad that she shared was that one of the main things she had neglected and had been afraid of due to her previous life experience and trauma etc. was love and so as this woman in her early 40s she had always resisted love and had problems in relationships and never had kids but now she realized that's what she really wanted and she said that during COVID she ended up moving to you know a warm sunny spot with this guy that she had just met that she had just opened herself up to and you know this was possibly the end of her life with this terminal cancer diagnosis. Ironically or tragically they had finally both opened themselves up to building this amazing life to restarting their life to building it around each other and her significant other this guy that was actually pretty young in his early 30s got COVID and due to some complications from the medical care he received he ended up dying so here's this woman who already has a terminal diagnosis you're dying she decides that she's going to dedicate her whole life to love and living her life right this time now working so hard not pushing so much and then she does the right thing and then the guy she's building her whole life around and maybe is the only thread left in her healing that could keep her alive from a you know an unusual survivor perspective he then dies too so imagine this woman in this state where that was the only thing potentially she had to live for and now that was gone too and just imagining how it's even possible to live and to want to live right now I know that maybe this year has not been that for you maybe it has been that bad I don't know your circumstances but I do know that the worst times make the best human beings and not just in terms of a strength and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger but purely from the perspective of the things that are the hardest will often make you the best you may not see it now you may not see it tomorrow you may not see the silver lining in a month you may not see the silver lining in a year or even for some years but just trusting that there is some good that's going to come out of this that is going to help you later in your life that level of trust I promise you will make all the difference just do the absolute best that you can and trust that some gem will come out of this