Is there a connection between pain and triumph? Is it necessary to go through the former to obtain the latter?  This video is about two high school kids who have come from nothing and even worse - one is almost blind and the other lost his leg in a tragic train accident. Do they let any of that get in their way toward personal victory? Just the opposite.  Their pain has given them ammunition to electrify their lives.  What is it in the human spirit that can turn that switch from pain/victimization to pain/triumph?

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My experience with trying to conceive (TTC) was painful. It was painful on my body, it was painful on my mind and outlook.  It was as if I was on a long train ride expecting to end up in one place, but then realizing in the middle that I had no idea where I was going.  Not only that, I was alone on the train.  It was scary, demoralizing, maddening.  I almost got to a point that I was mad at my body.  I had two painful miscarriages as well. The only positive thing about that was the valium my OBGYN nicely prescribed to deaden the beast lurking within.

I come out of that experience with triumph.  It started with one friend who started to go through the TTC process, and I couldn't bear for her to go through it.  That's what was the seed for Circle and Bloom.  I can now say that my experience  I For my fellow female travelers on the train that will now have  destination.