Cheers to the survivors who made it through. Cheers to the people who experience tragedy and keep going. Cheers to those of us who look mortality in the face and choose to live. I hate that it took my brother dying for me to completely revamp my life, but I love the life I created from the ashes of despair. I love that grief allowed me to fall apart so much that I couldn’t hold up societal standards anymore. I am not perfect and neither is my life, but death taught me to let go of that desire fo