Life's Funny That Way

Placing myself in her shoes

Prompt:
Place yourself in the shoes of someone who has a disability and write about something
they THINK they cannot do but after trying and trying, they find they are able to.


I have a cousin with MS.  She is, at this point, confined to a wheel chair and has vision problems.  I tell her that she is an inspiration to me.  Things have changed so much for her in the past few years, and she just keeps going.  She has had to adapt to doing things differently than she has in the past, obviously.  To me, these changes in her life seem so drastic.  To her, it’s just day-to-day life.  When I first told her how inspiring she was, she asked me what else I expected her to do.  She said she just had to deal with the ups and downs of her disease and take each day as it comes.  And she is right.  She really has no choice, if she wants to be happy and self-sufficient.  Of course, she could just sit at home and feel sorry for herself.  She could hate the world for how “cruel” it is being to her.  Yet, she chooses to be happy.  She chooses to take each day as it comes and to do as much as she can do, however she can do it.  In that way, she always reminds me that life is what you make it.  I’ve always thought that you can either sit on the couch and let life happen to you, or you can go out and make things happen.  My cousin is a living example of going out and making things happen – and I’m very happy to have her in my life.


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