So it’s 1am on Christmas Eve and I find myself wide awake thinking of life.

I sometimes think that it will all just work out for me. All I need to do is sit back and everything will be fine. Above all people I should realise by now that life is not all roses and people get hurt. Good people get sick and rich people get richer.

I am a firm believer that things happen for a reason and this year is proof. I have talked about previous years and how great life was before “the fall.”
But now I am adamant that my life is now more joyful and laid back after the experience over the past 7+ months.
From meeting well wishers, a common line is “well done for what you are doing” and “your looking great.”

Don’t misunderstand me when I say that I don’t appreciate it all. I sincerely do. The point I want to make is, I actually enjoy writing these blogs and giving hope to people that struggle in this cruel unforgiving world. I’m not great for doing it. I like doing it.

I am lucky enough to have come through the worst of medical conditions tolerable and stand the other side to say “fuck you world, I’m still breathing” but what if I never had CF. Would I have met the caring staff and doctors of Castlebar, Beaumont, The Mater? Have ever known what kind souls some people have that some people don’t know about and how cruel and ignorant some people are towards life?

What I have learnt 28 years is a life lesson and nothing more and that is the sole reason I’m writing this and giving talks, if I help only one person that is enough for me. I never had anybody that wasn’t my family to look up too or ask questions when I was in need. I was sent to a life coach who made €100 per hour and was never sick in his life
Thats what I am sharing with everyone that takes the time to read this.

Some don’t read as they are busy with other matters and others don’t feel information I share is relevant in there situation. I just hope that everything in there life is good and them or there loved ones never have to deal with a ill person in there family. People always have sympathy for the person that has the illness and rightly so but from the inside looking out, I find the same sympathy and feel help is also needed for the family involved. That’s another way we are blessed. My family and friends are made of material that is not known. How they dealt with everything baffles me and I will never forget. If the stars align and I do become a millionaire, I know who I will look after and I won’t have to look too far.

In life, everyone has a dream and they range from being rich beyond means to just getting a job they are qualified in and fail.

People work endlessly to become the person they want to be and those determined, succeed and deserve there fair dues.

How many of us work on a vision? How many are willing to take a step from a comfort zone and towards something great. Something that will make us happy and successful at the same time. As I sit here I am lucky to be In a position of being healthy and fit, just 7 months ago, I honestly thought I would never work again and was feeling like shit, life wasn’t worth living. But then I witnessed friends travel 6+ hours to see me, good friends have a routine in visiting me every day. A girlfriend spend 5 weeks in Dublin with little money and a family in despair so my motivation came from looking in these guys faces and not letting them down as well as a vision to defy odds once more.

Sunday 21st , I spent a night in Dublin with the best friends anybody could ask for. This Christmas is all about family, Rosie and Friends to me. Presents are a bonus but in true hindsight, me being here with them is a present to them.

Be close to loved ones, not just at Christmas but forever and always.
Protect them and love them.
Trust me, they do notice it and I am living testament.
Live life the way you want because it’s not to be wasted.
You won’t get another chance.
I’m lucky as I am on my third only for the love of those close to me.