Literally two minutes after I posted info about TMS and ketamine, on my Facebook feed, this quote popped up:
"Ernest Hemingway once wrote: The hardest lesson I have had to learn as an adult is the relentless need to keep going, no matter how broken I feel inside.
This truth is raw, unfiltered, and painfully universal. Life doesnāt stop when we are exhausted, when our hearts are shattered, or when our spirits feel threadbare. It keeps movingāunyielding, indifferentādemanding that we keep pace. There is no pause button for grief, no intermission for healing, no moment where the world gently steps aside and allows us to mend. Life expects us to carry our burdens in silence, to push forward despite the weight of all we carry inside.
The cruelest part? No one really prepares us for this. As children, we are fed stories of resilience wrapped in neat, hopeful endingsātales where pain has purpose and every storm clears to reveal a bright horizon. But adulthood strips away those comforting illusions. It teaches us that survival is rarely poetic. More often than not, itās about showing up when youād rather disappear, smiling through pain no one sees, and carrying on despite feeling like you're unraveling from the inside out.
And yet, somehow, we persevere. Thatās the quiet miracle of being human. Even when life is relentless, even when hope feels distant, we keep moving. We stumble, we break, we fall to our kneesābut we get up. And in doing so, we uncover a strength we never knew we had. We learn to comfort ourselves in the ways we wish others would. We become the voice of reassurance we once searched for. Slowly, we realize that resilience isnāt always about grand acts of bravery; sometimes, itās just a whisperāāKeep going.ā
Yes, itās exhausting. Yes, itās unfair. And yes, there are days when the weight of it all feels unbearable. But every small step forward is proof that we havenāt given up. That we are still fighting, still holding on, still refusing to let the darkness consume us. That quiet defianceāchoosing to exist, to try, to hopeāis the bravest thing we can do."