"I am not what I have done, I am what I have overcome"
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I read this saying and it moved me to the core. I understood it immediately although for a long time I did think that I was what I have done in life that made me important and worthwhile. Today I know better and I understand that I am what I have been able to overcome in life. The cancer, the abandonment and the subsequent death of my children's mother and the pain and anguish on my granddaughter's face when she found out that her favorite grandmother had died. Nothing could prepare me for the sadness, the emotional pain, the physical torture and the fears that brought me to my knees, nothing. I have uncovered with certainty that I am not what I have done, I am what I have overcome.
We are all soldiers of life and we accomplish things in our lives that have some meaning and in some cases transform us to places we have not been and affords us things that we did not think we'd ever have. It is not a bad thing to accomplish some goals in life yet it is not the things we are able to do that will in the long run make a difference as life will deal us some surprises. There will be things that will go wrong and that we will struggle with so that it will be the things that we are able to overcome that will give us the courage and the strength to move on.
We are not what we have done, we are what we have overcome. There is truly some meaning to these simple yet profound and meaningful words. We who have overcome know what it is like to move from the pain and into the joy we deserve, being able to laugh and dance again. Life may throw us some curve balls but we are once again, time and time again, able to catch them and throw the ball back. We are resilient and we have courage from sources we'd never thought. So when someone asks you what you have done, what you have accomplished in life, respond with what you have overcome and know with certainty that life is a series of trials that you will be able to overcome and learn from.
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