Life doesn’t always give us the comfort of smooth roads, but every scar you carry tells a story of strength. Be proud of how far you’ve come — not just in achievements, but in endurance.
You’ve survived nights you thought would break you, and still, you rise each morning, choosing to keep going. That’s not weakness. That’s power.
Gratitude isn’t just about celebrating big wins — it’s about honoring the quiet strength it took to get through the hard days. Even when life felt overwhelming, you didn’t give up. You faced it all — with tears maybe, but with courage.
So pause, breathe, and be grateful. You are proof that resilience lives in small, everyday victories.
“Be grateful for how far you’ve come. Life hasn’t been easy, but you’ve always found the strength to face another day.”
SMiLes Dear Chaymaa 3 MiLLioN Followers on
Your Facebook Page of Wise Quotes to Lift Other
Humans Up During Your Busy Career as a Pharmacist
in Cairo is Surely A Measure of Human Endurance for the
Better of Others Hehe as i Reach 65 on June 6th Currently
Celebrating 14 MiLLioN Words of “SonG oF mY SoUL” in Poetic
Responses to Folks All Around the Globe in the Last 140 Months
Coming On a “Good Friday” April the 18th of This Week It’s True It’s Quite
A Change of Words From Having
None to Put Together in Sentences
To Speak until age 4 Just a Year after
JFK Was Shot in ’63 Born on the Autism Spectrum in ’60
Long Before there Was a Diagnosis for mY part of the Spectrum
Yet NO RFK Jr in His Speech Today about Autistic Folks Never Paying Taxes
Never Getting Married Never Writing a Poetic Word Without Speech in Childhood is
Living
Dead Wrong
For Many Folks
On the Autism Spectrum
Do Rise Even Far Beyond their Peers
EVeNTUaLLY NoW
Later in Life It’s True my Peers told me
in Youth in No Uncertain Terms i was too Weak then
too Strange too Androgynous For Living Existence Spitting
on me for Daring to Smile as a Boy as that was not allowed
in this Small Town Either at the City Park Playing Tennis Then
With a Backboard True or Even Walking the Middle School Halls
Without Verbal
Threats of Harm
For it Wasn’t me
Who was a Little
Sad Boy It Was
They Who Named
Themselves Marching
Soldier Christian Boys and
Girls Who Spit on me for being Different
Ironically Enough Born Happy Just to Exist
Strange How Joy Will Be Spit Upon For Existing
Strange for the Privilege to Smile How One Might Have to Practically
Become Strong as a ‘Superman’ True Still Literally Leg Pressing 1540 Pounds
12 Reps Warming Up at a Military Gym Close to 65 after taunts of Bird Legs in
Middle School Hehe Yet What Good is All that Leg Strength unless You Public Dance all around
Your Metro area 21,600 Miles of Dance in 140 Months too And Not Only Lift Others Up With
Every Word
of Sacred Song
All 14 MiLLioN Words
With SMiLes Yet Do The
The Same With Every Move
Of Holy Dance Bringing Smiles in Every
Holy
Step
Yes of
Dance With SMiLes
For You See It’s What You Come
to See And Be And Do after Enduring
Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia for 66 Months
From Ages 47 to 53 the Worst Pain Known to Humankind
From Wake to Sleep No Drug Will Touch Shut-in Your Home
With a Synergy of Life Threat in 18 Other Mostly Work-Stress
Related Disorders too After Enduring 11 Years of Chronic to Acute
Stress in a Job Very Demanding Indeed for a Person on the Autism
Spectrum Yet never the Less in ’83 Finishing College With 3 Degrees
at Once Working 3 Part time Jobs at Once Toward the End to finish that
‘Endurance
Test’ Of Life too
Yes Somehow Moving
Far Beyond RFK Jr’s ‘Dire
Prediction’ For What He Termed
As Basically a Worthless Life for
Folks on the Autism Spectrum as
Again Many Do Eventually Surpass
Their Peers as true i Finished 33 Years
of Work for Pay too along with those 3 Degrees
Oh All the
3’s Hehe
And 6’s too born
on 6.6.60 What an
‘Omen’ That Would Be
Moving Through HeLL ON EartH
For 66 Months Within With A Disease
Literally Assessed as More Tortuous
Than Real Life Crucifixion Yes for me
in my Right Eye and Ear Like a Dentist
Drill Without Any Novocaine All Waking Hours then…
Yet Even Worse Losing the Memory of Ever Feeling
A SMiLe Coming to Understand the Truth That For Real
The Warmth a SMiLe BRinGS Is Real Heaven on Earth for
Those Who Endure Real HeLL ON EartH Without the Warmth of a SMiLE
NO the Child With
Down’s Syndrome
Who Turns Around
And SMiLes and Shakes
Your Hand as A Child in Church
When No One Else Wants Any Part
of Your SMiLe in Life is No Worthless
Child They are a Savior of Human Warmth
In Every
SMiLe
They Provide
Indeed i Endured all
The Living Death Just
to Provide A Simple Message
Of What
It Means
to Survive Better
Yet FeeL iT Do IT Be IT
Give it All Away For Free
Naked Enough Whole
Complete
With
SMiLes.. For
All Our Living Trees Now
In This Heaven ON EartH We Co-Create New…
For You See ‘Come What May’ Even IF A Small Child With
A Disability Waters a Small Sapling Tree Growing Into a Beautiful
Flowering Tree Inspiring Others to Come to BREaTHE LoVE iN Peace
That Child Has the Ability to Save the World For Every Breath of Unique
Nature’s
Beauty Still To
BReaTHE NoW
New
With SMiLes…
As Always Dear
Chaymaa Thanks
For Inspiring me ThiS WaY..:)
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s powerful, moving, and full of light. I’m truly honored that my words reached someone as strong and inspiring as you. Keep shining. ✨️