How Do I Navigate My Life

How Do I Navigate My Life

In your life, do you sit passively on the sidelines?  Do you sit back and watch the world go by?  Do you often look out into the oceans water wondering how you are going to master the obstacles in your life?  Do you ask yourself how you are going to make your life happen?   And when!  Do you reach out to others in the things you are interested in so that you can move forward?

Do you see people taking on jobs or positions you wished you could have, or are capable of handling?

What’s holding you back?  What can you do to change your circumstances?  How can you rise above?

Are the people around you telling you that you cannot succeed?  What happens inside your being?  Do you fight and stand up for your rights, or do you plop down onto the couch and wither away in sadness and depression? Do you let those thoughts win?

It’s worth believing in you.  For one, you build your own self-confidence and self-esteem.  You take on new ideas, inviting challenges, and by engaging yourself with new people and activity you hear your own voice. You start to like what you see.  You have experienced something new.  You are making choices on your own.  You are not frittering your life away. And, you are not listening to those who once told you, you couldn’t.

Is it worth stepping outside the box?  Is it worth trying?  Is it worth feeling good about youself?

Tags: Challenges, dare to invite, to engage, to stimulate, to test one's ability, deal with
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Left Behind

How many of you with some kind of impairment or challenge have felt left behind because you were not accepted?  How many of you wanted to be given a chance to show your talents and abilities to the world around you? And, how many of you wanted to move forward with a positive attitude, but were held back because it was inconvenient for someone else?

What a shame it is that a country so vast, so smart, and so sophisticated turns its back on the talents and needs of the most under-developed population.  Not so much the visually, or hearing impaired; but individuals with Cerebral Palsy and other mobility or speech impairments which are either left to solve there own problems, or are locked away in group homes, or forced to be monitored by an army of social workers who want total control of there being.  Moreover, we are told time and again that we are incapable and cannot work.  We are told to our faces that it’s better for everyone if we just stay at home, aren’t seen, and collect a social security check for the rest of our lives. 

How sad is that?  How sad is it that a group of people or a government of people will not accept us as human beings.  How sad is it that we are put here on this earth, but have to struggle all our lives! 

What is wrong with the picture?  And, what is wrong with the world?  And why do “we” have to suffer? Why?

I can’t live with this injustice, discrimination, and humiliation any more! Why, you might be asking yourself?  Because this happened to me.  So I’m the first to balk.  I’ll be the first to admit the truth.  And I’ll be the first to share it honestly and openly with the world so that good change can come from it. 

Has this happened to you? 

These “experts” have only one set of options.  And these options don’t usually include making our lives better.  What’s more, is that these options limit rather than increase our control over our own lives.  It segregates us from society, and denies us our birth right and equal status as individuals and Americans.  We were put on this earth to have the opportunity to develop and make use of whatever talents and brains that God gave us.  Just because we were paralyzed does not mean we don’t have sense about us to think, act, or perform a given task, or duty we  would love to do.  Why shouldn’t we then, be treated or given the same opportunities?  Are we so ugly to look at, we have to be locked away in a closet? 

Time after time, we do as we are told like good little children, although we get nowhere fast.  Once again, we are not taken seriously, and we are disrespected and discounted.  This must end!  And so must these despicable attitudes from people who make up a world who don’t want anything to do with us or change.

Tags: Challenges, dare to invite, to engage, to stimulate, to test one's ability, deal with
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