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Originally Posted by Champion
Mods can merge/delete this, but this is my true story and I woke up today wanting to tell it.
I'm 29 years old. I have a lovely wife, a nice business, and a kid coming hopefully.
I had an uncle who I looked up to a lot. He was a track star. Very fast guy. He helped raise me when my parents didn't know they would get twins. He died from lung cancer at 31. He started getting memory loss, he was blind at 27. I used to go to the hospital in highschool to go feed him everyday and stroll him around outside in his wheelchair. First question he always asked me? "How is your mom (His sister). How is your brother?" Never about himself.
I lost my niece when she was 2 years old. Slept on her stomach and suffocated herself.
I lost a good cousin to suicide over the dumbest thing.
I lost my aunt to cancer.
I lost my grandma last year due to complications in hip surgery never got to say goodbye.
I lost my father to complications with diabetes at 49 when I was 19. Unexpected.
The point of my thread is that I went through all of that and I survived. It made me stronger. I am so motivated today.
It's easy to say, but don't ever get de-motivated. There is always a will and a way.
Keep your head up and always look at the positives in your life.
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I feel very bad for what you have gone though.
I could use some of this good mojo.
I am a 32 year old male.
I have had 3 heart attacks and 2 strokes in my life. I guess they call them mini strokes when you catch them early enough to prevent permanent damage, but all the same. 3 separate conditions I was born with. Not lifestyle.
I graduated top of my high school, I had a bright future. I was a hard worker considering I had surgery since the time I was 5 with no anesthetic. They couldn't risk stopping my heart. I know what pain is. And by that, I know how to put in a hard days work. My body just doesn't work they way a healthy persons would.
I had my first mini stroke at 16, I had my first full on heart attack at 20.
Because I can walk, because I refuse not to stay lying down, I have been called healthy enough not to qualify for benefits, yet I'm too sick to get hired by many places now.
I look at Occupy Wall Street, I look at Occupy Calgary, and I say, yeah I get that.
There are people that truly want to. But simply cannot.
We are not lazy. We are not stupid. In fact, the sheer fact of being here makes us more hard working than most of you.
But yet people slip through the cracks.
NEVER EVER give up! We are here for a reason!