One Thing She Is Sure Of

Had a coffee with a friend this morning.  A very inspiring woman faced with challenges like so many of us are.  However, there was a refreshing difference with this woman's perspective of her plight and others I have spoken with.  Although she is facing one of the most difficult times in her life, she sees hope; she wants to believe there is hope and she wants hope so desperately that she envisions it just so she can get to it.  She has been hurt, humiliated and disrespected yet, she still has the ability to smile and laugh, and carries herself with confidence and dignity.  She knows no matter how unfairly she has been treated, what others think of her, what she looks like, how much she weighs, fat or thin, how smart she is, or what she does for a living do not define her.  All of these things and all of the people in her life merely enhance or betray who she really is.  Her true self lies deep within her heart and soul; it is undescribable and undefinable.  It is her intuitiveness, her knowing, her being that truely defines her.  No one can take away what can't be seen, what  is deep within her.  She will fight to keep it while she hangs on to the hope.  That's all she is sure of.