Thank sunkacola. I appreciate your message. Do you think that you can live a happy life with FM?
I think the acceptance of this disease is one of the most difficult things.
I ask every day why this happened to me.
gain-----yes, absolutely you can lead a very happy life with FM. You can lead a very happy life while very poor, with no legs, with a chronic disease, and so on. There is nothing that, in and of itself, prevents leading a happy life except some forms of mental illness.
The situation you are in, how you manage your life, the support and love you receive and give to others, and many many other factors determine whether or not you are happy. FM doesn't determine it.
You are right that acceptance is a major key, and remember this:
The degree to which you can have acceptance of each present moment is the degree to which you can have peace of mind.
One more thing: I would like to suggest that you stop asking WHY this has happened. First off, there's no answer, so asking is pointless. Secondly, if you are fond of asking "why" to unanswerable questions, try asking yourself
why are you a person with a place to live and food to eat, clean water to drink and citizenship in your country and electricity and access to a computer, when there are hundreds of millions of people on this planet who don't have, and may never have, any of those things? Why do you live a life that, even if not remotely wealthy by American standards, is unimaginably rich to the majority of the population of this planet just because you have those things?
You see what I mean - there's no answer to that. It just is. Personally, I do all I can to adequately and reasonably manage my problems, whatever they are, and I am grateful for what I have that others don't. I help if there's something I can do to help. And that's it. I don't spend my energy asking "why" when it can be better spent.