Being Strong
I was chatting online with a friend about our chronic illnesses and the idea of being strong and not being able to work as much as we'd like came up. That got me to thinking about how those of us with chronic illness relate to our society's obsession with health and strength. You don't have be watch too much TV or be on much social media to see how much we are surrounded by images of health and strength. That, in itself, is not bad. What gets bad is when it becomes an idol, w