Please, be gentle with me

It’s probably just…

Up until this point, I had no idea that young people, too, experience arthritis. What? I too thought it was an aging thing.

But I was ageing. Wasn’t I? I was growing at 23 and still growing.

Only now, I know more than I did about joint pain and arthritis.

I know now that arthritis and growing pains are not the same.

I know that even younger people than 23 experience arthritis.

I know to listen to my body.

I know I need to pace myself and take on what my body can bear momentarily.

Day by day. I know I need to be gentle with myself.

Please be gentle with me.

SaFe :)