Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of your life that you expect it to always be there, because you can't remember a time when it wasn't. It engulfed your life in every possible way, and there came a moment when it was just easier to accept it rather than fight it. You carry it with you everywhere you go, and the people you meet can see it in your eyes - how it glares through and consumes everything in its wake. But then one day, as you're going about your normal life, something happens, something that changes you irreparably and forever. Your life suddenly feels different, as if something has shifted. It feels so wrong at first, so out of balance because it's unlike anything you've felt before. And in that instant you realise, you know without a shadow of a doubt, with every fiber of your soul, that you've made it, that you're happy.
