“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
Ever had “one of those days”? You know those times when you just can’t take it any longer. Not one more minute. You just want to lay in bed and cry because you don’t feel strong anymore. Negative thoughts are echoing in your head causing a pain so strong it can cut through marble. While symptoms slowly blaze a fire that burns doubts of your abilities into your subconscious. And no one around you can understand or relate to such confusing sorrow.
When this happens, I look everywhere for positive messages and stories. It’s like I’m pleading for help. Searching for someone to catch me.
So yesterday, right before I was about to crumple, I found someone’s arms to fall into. Her name is Lydia Emily and she is an incredible woman. I randomly came upon a news story about her art projects. As I skimmed over the article, I found out she has multiple sclerosis. This caused me to read deeper into her story. The article focused on Lydia’s goal of going to cities around the United States painting murals that raise awareness about MS.
I was inspired by the unique way she uses her passion for art to help find a cure for MS. I decided to research some of her street art. In doing so, I found a Kickstarter campaign designed to generate funds to help finish creating a documentary about Lydia Emily and her efforts. The film and Kickstarter project is called PC594.
The funny thing is, she doesn’t even know how much she helped me today. Her efforts not only inspired but also saved me from a serious pity party I was about to host. So I want to say thank you Lydia. You turned my “one of those days” into “a pretty good day”.
PC594 – The Film by Libby Spears
I had read her article too. She is a very inspiring woman. Glad you came across this. Sometimes something like this happens and you just know in your heart that someone is in your corner putting things in front of you just when you need it the most. Sounds like that’s what happened in this instance.
Thank you Nicole – I am interested in the artists work ………… glad you had a good day – right now I could do with some sleep – but have bookmarked this post for further exploration. In my early MS days when I was lame in my right arm and started beading as a form of art therapy – I got seriously hooked on beadingand I still see the lady who taught me — I am there so often that I am part of the furniture and have watched her 3 boys grow up with the nicest personality – because they have a mother that encourages creativity and never lets them give up…………….she has been such an inspritional friend – good times!!
Very cool! Thank you for sharing this!
I just wrote a similar post about positive and negative thinking. I’ll look up the story you suggested.
Muff, we are two peas in a pod.
Thank you! You made my day!
Debbie, you just made me feel pretty good too!
Nicole, this is great! Thank you so much for sharing! I follow a few blogs by artists that provide me with great diversions. I also discovered Zentangle which is a simple and fun outlet for short diversions of creativity! With very limited mobility, either doing or reading about zentangle always turns a bad day around!
https://www.zentangle.com