once in a while,

Sorry if this sound negative, it is not my intention at all. Obviously, I don’t know you or how you deal with the disease so don’t get mad at me for saying that: if your ‘once in a while’ is indeed rare and if it is not one exception among many others, that should not be an issue to enjoy a treat once in a while. If it is not, if it’s too frequent or if you have too many other exceptions going one next to this one, and if you have not done so already, I would urge you to openly discuss that with your doctor (and with your nutritionist) just to make sure it’s not too much risk for your health. Diabetes is a real nasty disease… I say that because I’ve seen someone not taking their diabetes seriously enough and… For a few years, nothing happened at all but then they, almost suddenly, their health started to fall apart and what they went through, ending up blind and their body literally wrecked, I would not wish it to my worst enemy.

And to answer your question, my true luxury is time. Making time for live.

It is me deciding years ago that this time we all get to live on the planet was more valuable than my career and the money that went with it. And that it was more valuable than wasting it pretending to be someone I was not, in order to please a bunch of people. I loved that job, I made a decent living and was not too bad at it either, but it was also killing me, quite literally as one morning I narrowly escaped death (too much stress and exhaustion, substance abuse seldom make for a good mix). That was the moment when my spouse and I agreed the best thing to do was for me to quit that job, and question the central place of work in my live, and for us two to change our way of life, focusing on simpler things and on ourselves and being together.

edit: typos