Feeling good about all that I can still accomplish

In May, at my second job, I got an amazing evaluation from my manager, with a really good raise. I was thrilled! The other day, I was thinking about how much I love my job at the school with the students and how much I also really like my second job as a cashier at a retail store. I don't think that I even realized how much of a “people person” that I am until working as a cashier, or perhaps I had forgotten. I love interacting with my customers and my bosses say that I greatly exceed at this. I feel like in some ways I'm a different person than I was five years ago. I think that one of the reasons for this is because I’m living with a memory impairment. I can't possibly be the same person that I was before my diagnosis in 2005. I've had to become a much stronger person and without doing so, I'm not sure how well I'd be doing right now.

Last week, while working at my retail job, I noticed a co-worker who wasn't even working half as hard as I was. I thought to myself, “What is their problem? Do they even have a clue how hard it is sometimes for me to just get through my day? My answer to this is, “probably not”, since they're probably unaware of my diagnosis.” My feeling is this, if I can do my job really well while living with a memory impairment, then what possible excuse could some of my co-workers have for not doing their job? When I think about this, I wonder why it would really matter to me. I guess it just makes me very proud of all that I'm able to accomplish on my own. In retrospect, it was just one of those wonderful moments for me. I'm so blessed with my life!