Recently, I had a gracious reader of Second Chance to Live leave a comment. The comment generated some thoughts that I would like to share with you. I believe that we are uniquely qualified to succeed through growing in awareness and acceptance. Awareness and acceptance and our ability to take action. Take action to create in ways that work for us to fulfill our purpose.
As a unique individual, I have come to realize that I was never meant to be anyone but myself. To me this means that I do not have to run anyone else’s race. I am free to stay in my lane and find out how to use my gifts, talents and abilities. I am free to use my set of circumstances to excel and flourish in life. Free to flourish in my life through growing in self-awareness and self-acceptance.
As a unique individual living with a traumatic brain injury and an invisible disability I am equipped. Equipped to do things unique to me beyond the “box” of anyone’s expectations of me. By accepting what I am powerless over, I am free to discover what I can do. Do with my life despite being powerless over the impact of a traumatic brain injury and my invisible disability.
I am free to use, learn and grow from the adversity that I experience in my life due to living with a brain injury and an invisible disability. By recognizing that I can use, learn and grow from adversity, I am able to stop fighting. Stop fighting to prove what I am powerless to change. As a result, I am free to use my time and energy to create, instead of defending what I cannot change.
By accepting what I am powerless over, I have been able to develop what I do have power over as I live my life. By accepting what I am powerless over, I have been able to excel and flourish beyond the “box” of anyone’s expectation. By accepting what I have not been able to overcome, I have been able to use my time and energy to discover how to excel and flourish in ways that work.
By growing in the awareness and acceptance of this distinction, I have been able to stop fighting against myself. Been able to stop struggling and striving to prove that I had power over what I had no power. And as I stopped the struggle and striving, I discovered that I could create possibilities. Create possibilities beyond what I had no power because of my brain injury and invisible disability.
Epilogue
With my awareness and acceptance, I came to realize what works for other people does not have to work for me. What works for me does not have to work for anyone else. Through this realization I have been able to stop comparing myself what I am building with what other people are building.
“Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.” Zig Ziglar
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” Abraham Lincoln
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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