Today I am reflecting on anniversaries. When life throws us into chaos, we go into survival mode and focus on what the next best thing to do to get through is. We move through life day by day and when that is too hard, hour by hour or even minute by minute. It's only when the chaos settles that we realize what we have actually overcome and stand in awe of the surrealness of the whole situation. My first experience of this was coming back after the pandemic. Coming from

Often times examples of success lift up those doing the extra ordinary, placing people high up on a pedestal. This is especially true when we look for examples of recovery. These examples read like a Chicken Soup for the Soul story designed with the intention to inspire and motivate. The danger of extraordinary is that we set an unrealistic bar. Extraordinary in anything is the minority. Ordinary is the majority. It can be hard to see ourselves in extraordinary. It can f