Three Little Letters

It's amazing the power of three little letters. They can change the whole way you look at things.

Yet.

It can change "I can't climb stairs" into "I can't climb stairs yet".

It can change "I can't read those words" into "I can't read those words yet".

Over the last 7 and a half years, I've had my times of optimism and my times of pessimism. Times where I was enthusiastic and the world was just waiting for me to rediscover it. And times when everything got too hard and I wanted to give up.

Sometimes the phrase "I can't" precedes everything I do and feel. Sometimes I feel like everything I want to do is just too difficult. Sometimes my mind is overburdened, tired, foggy, things are too much and life is just all too hard.

But if I add little little letters, it changes everything.

Yet.

I can't think clearly yet. Ask me again later and I will try to think about it and give you an answer.

I can't walk that far yet. With a bit more training I will be able to.

At times when the Black Dog decides it needs to move into my back yard, and "I can't" becomes my world, I need to remember what I have done in the past.

I need to remember climbing Mt Vesuvius in Italy, and making it to the top. It made learning to walk again worth it.

I need to remember the high distinction I got on an assignment. It made learning to read and write again worth it.

I need to remember that however hard things are right now, if I add three little letters I can change my mindset and anything is possible.

Yet.