Illness brings you back to who you are. It returns you to the truth. It takes you forward, in quantum leaps, to who you need to be. It precipitates seismic shifts into the new, and back to the real.
Illness
reveals secrets you have been unable or unwilling to hear. It stops being
discreet and says it like it is, taking a whisper on the wind and using it to blow down
your door. It scatters your attachments like dead leaves around the
otherwise-ignored corners of the garden.

You were never
really ill. You were always on course. Now you know.
You
keep transforming.