Be The Absurd Rebel

To live with a chronic illness is to wake each day inside a story you did not choose and still decide to step forward. The body may ache and the future may feel uncertain yet there is a quiet defiance in rising anyway. Albert Camus wrote of the absurd hero as one who refuses to surrender to despair even when the world offers no clear answers. This hero does not wait for rescue or perfect health but claims dignity in the act of living. There is courage in taking medication and making appointments and loving others while pain hums in the background. There is bravery in laughter that breaks through fatigue and in hope that returns without promise. To be an absurd hero with a chronic illness is to carry suffering without turning away from life and to shape meaning through presence alone.

Dr. Jeffrey Bone