Maybe I can clear this up; maybe not everyone will understand exactly what I am trying to say.  In writing about something, or your feelings, sometimes it is very hard to convey a message.  You can have the truest intentions, and still, the precise message in which you wish to share can be misconstrued or lost completely. 

Where you’re at or how you feel about something when you read it can be absolutely different than another person sees it or what the original writer was attempting to say in the first place. 

I want to say, as clear as can be possible, without you and I actually looking at each other and physically talking about this in the same room, that I completely and absolutely understand what Michelle wrote about.  100% wholeheartedly. 

It is ok to hate diabetes.

What I ONLY wanted to do by writing the blog, “I LOVE DIABETES” was to say, I know what it feels like to feel that hatred sometimes, and I also know, what it feels like to be at peace.

Just as we all do.

From time to time – each and every one of us who is living with this disease – feels at peace with diabetes - however temporary and periodic that moment of peace might be.

My message is that peace can almost be felt all the time.  What I want to say and spread is that each of us have the ability to maximize that time.  The control is within your very own mind.  Even during the hardest of times in your life.

Basically, in writing that the other day, I was attempting to bring a message of peace.  Michelle had put out a message of hate, which people can relate with when they need to.  I thought it would be nice to post a message of love.  So when people want to read about and relate to hating diabetes, they can.  When people want to read about peace and a suggestion of how to get and stay there, they can. 

Never did I mean, or would I purposely try to hurt anyone’s feelings, or to come across as saying what she said was wrong.   I personally am attempting to live completely at peace with everything, all the time.  It’s a struggle, but feel it can be done.  I try to liken it to some of the approaches that Buddhists take.  I truly am a very respectful person.  I don’t know what else to say.  If you know me, you know that.  I also have feelings myself that are very deeply rooted.  I ask for respect in return.  I had a comment from an individual that asked what drugs I am on.  I’m pretty sure he was attempting to be disrespectful.  For the record, I am not on anything but insulin and thyroid medicine.  It is because of comments and things like that, that I practice exercise and martial arts, and prayer daily.  Those things are my release.  Those methods of expression suit me best.  Maybe I should stick primarily to those!  LOL.  I said from the beginning of this that I never considered myself a writer!  

Thank you very much for reading.

With respect and love completely - even for those that think I'm on drugs :)  Andy