Think again.
Yesterday afternoon I went to a local neighborhood picnic. The whole neighborhood had gotten together to build some playground equipment and celebrate the event.
The first person I noticed was a little girlabout 10 years old or so. She had no hands and no legs below her knees. My first instinct was to feel sorry for her. But as I watched her she played with her friends, then she hopped up into her wheelchair and went off somewhere else. Then I realized - what I took to be a difficult disability was nothing for her. She had adapted and dealt with it as a normal part of life. She certainly didn't need my sympathy.
It was I who really had the problem. I have two healthy children with no physical problems. I'm not sure that I would have one tenth of the strength that little girl had. She was able to ignore her disabilities and capitalize on her strengths - and they were obviously considerable.
Before you feel sorry for yourself, think again. There will always be people a lot worse off than you, yet they manage to live great lives. And you can too if you can overcome limitations that for you only exist in your mind.
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