Well I started early January in my Anatomy and Physiology class which is very interesting but tough. What inspires me in this class is our remarkable bodies and the physiology of it all. Our bodies are made to heal themselves, quite literally! Disease is just toxicity or in deficiency of something occurring in the body. We actually have cells that their entire job is to just destroy toxins, and eat them and remove them from our bodies. My first thought is hmmm, could this be the key to research with cancer eradication? Each week we have a new chapter, the first two weeks was just on organelles and cells and ATP which is energy that our body produces. Then we went into tissues and no I do not mean the puffs kind! Tissues at first were BORING, but you have to admit you can't say that once you see the various tissues under a microscope they are like a universe in itself. We went onto the skin and then onto the skeletal system this week. Each week I learn new tidbits that just wow me. One was my lab teacher mentioned that polar bears do not drink water, because they have enough adipose tissue (fat) that basically their body gets what it needs from itself. Evolution at work!
I know I probably sound like a nerd by now, but as I get older these things fascinate me and I wonder why when I was younger did I not enjoy the moment and the learning in the same way like I do now. There was a time that I did, but I became a teenager and it went out the window! The saying if only we knew then what we know now holds so true. We grow, we evolve physically, spiritually, emotionally and it is amazing what lessons are out there to be learned. How much free education we have in our own country available at our fingertips! You only have to go do the local library, pull any book off the shelf and learn new things each day. I started to think about those less fortunate in other countries who would give anything to have what we have in our own country. How blessed we truly are!
As I have stated in earlier blogs I have lost so much in my life, but I also have gained so much. Life is meant to be precious to gobble it up and just breathe in what is before us. I can remember a time or two when things got so dark for me during divorce, loss of a child..other things. During those difficult times I forgot the beauty of it all because you focus on your own internal pain. Healing takes time but when you do get to that place that you see so much around you ready to be plucked! Then and only then can you truly learn what it is like to be happy. Its about the moment now for me. The tidbit I learn in class, the smile on a child's face when they discover something. The personalities of my three fur kids. (2 cats and 1 dog people!) True happiness is inside it cannot be bought, sold or dependant on another.
Piece of advice though, sometimes enjoying the moment can make you become overwhelmed because you want to do it all. You have to realize after much stress you can't. Its impossible. You are not super woman or man but a human being with a lot of faults and a lot to learn. Baby steps, a day at a time (the name of this blog!) is what it takes.
So my inspiring moments was realizing once again how lucky we have it, and to realize the potential of not only our physical bodies and the ability to heal, but our emotional selves and how far we can go.
You are so right!
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