Read this if you don’t remember the last time you felt grateful to be alive

It’s so easy to get caught up in the drama of our lives

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“Go enjoy your life cause there are people that are fighting like hell for it.”

Those were a few words from one of Claire Wineland’s last videos last year. She had cystic fibrosis (CF), a life-threatening disorder that causes mucus to block airways in the lungs.

Claire was brave, positive, and extraordinary. She knew she was dying and openly talked about it but still radiated wisdom and sunshine. She put herself out into the world to inspire other people struggling with terminal diseases, but she ended up inspiring hundreds of thousands of people with her inspiring speeches and videos.

Unfortunately, Claire passed away after a lung transplant on September 2, 2018. The life expectancy for CF is thirty-seven years, but Claire didn’t it make it past twenty-one.

I didn’t know Claire, but I was rooting for her. She just had to live for as long as most of us.

So, I couldn’t help the tears, and the sobs, that had escaped me when I logged into Twitter one day and saw that Claire Wineland had passed away.

But no matter how short her life-span, Claire had, and continues to have, an…