staying strong

a few months ago, i told you that my grandma is my hero. but, i never thought that same strong grandma would move me to tears while telling me to stay strong as i struggle with the difficult challenges that i am currently dealing with inmy own life.

while i agree with her, that we ernst women are strong and smart and survivors, i was moved by the fact that my own problems could even be compared to her own quest to defy the death sentence of a cancer diagnosis. my won petty problems are not worthy to be compared to hers.

but, it does make me think that this, too, shall pass. if she can beat the odds and, in her eighties, emerge cancer-free from a devastating surgery, then i can survive anything that my charmed life can throw at me. i am just one little girl looking for happiness in love, work and apartment, and knowing that in the very near future, the life that i know now may look completely different.

and to that i say, bring it on world.