Last year was by far the worst year of my life. My dad barely escaped death from a horrible stroke that left him crippled. He lost his company that he built on his own over the last 20 years to his business partner snaking him while he was down and out of the picture. I lost my 2 year relationships shortly after, the person I thought was my everything, the person I was going to propose to this year, they left me at my worst. My body gave out on me February. I was hospitalized with an open esophagus. Due to the years of stress my body shut down and refused to receive food of water. As a result I ended up on the ER with a 30% chance of getting through it alive. Became a shell of my former self almost reaching 45kgs coming out of it. And the cherry on top, my mom got thyroid cancer start of summer that we hopefully managed to deal with in a timely manner. To wrap it up, this year was the definition of a steaming pile of dogshit. Why am I writing all of this? Not for compassion or sympathy. Life is hard, sometimes, its unfairly hard and very cruel. You can lose everything you have at the blink of an eye. I thought I was not going to get back on my feet. And yet, a year after this nightmare started, I am here standing, being at my healthiest weight ever, probably at the best state of mind I have been in the last 2-3 years, and even tho I am still a bit of a pessimist about life, I take its challenges as they come, one day at a time. I am writing this as a reminder for my future self, and a story for anyone reading this. Closing, I want to say thank you to God for giving me these challenges and making me strong enough to traverse them. Thank you to all the amazing people and new friends I met through out this year that made this whole thing slightly more bearable. But lastly I have two people I have to mention by name. George, my childhood friend who has stuck by my side for the last 15 years. We have had our good and bad times together but no matter what I know you are there for me through thick and thin and you know I am there for you. And of course, the person who was there for me at my darkest times and worst moments. @GutbusterMR I met you during the worst period of my life. You had no reason to help a stranger the way you did and yet, that stranger has now become your friend and brother. You have restored my faith even if slightly in the goodness of people and for that I am eternally grateful. Everyone reading this, know that no matter how shit things get and how hopeless it seems, as long as you get back up on your feet, there is always a tomorrow. One day at a time.