Something inspirational:

"First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement."

ABERJHANI

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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2 comments on “A quote by Aberjhani”

  1. Through virgin eyes, my first steps in life seemed even and rational.

    But I realized later that my universe was an enclosed shell, that I'm still trying to open to this very day.

    Wisdom does not come easily.

    1. Thanks Tim. Yes, until we think about it, our steps, or first steps do seem even and rational. It is only when we look back that we see a different version and we are able to articulately work out if and how we could have done things better.

      You're right, wisdom doesn't come easily and we can be forgiven for it not, but what we can't be forgiven for, is not even trying. We're seeing more of that in the pandemic.

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