Almost every morning, I read a little from my leadership books to start my day. It's become some sort of a habit now. It's a good habit. In fact, it's like a little achievement I make each day... I'm a little bit proud of it, actually.
Today was all about positive attitude. It's something we can choose to have, something that is free. There really isn't much I can say about attitudes that these quotes can't already tell you. So I'll just quote away."The greatest discovery if my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind."
-William James, Psychologist
"The last of our human freedoms is to choose our attitude in any given circumstance."- Victor Frankl, Psychologist Survived imprisonment in a Nazi death camp
"No Matter what happened to you yesterday, your attitude is your choice today."-John C. Maxwell, Author
Whatever your attitude is about something is, that is what your experience about it will be. There is no reality, only perception.
If my attitude about wearing the ilizarov was that it was a superficial cosmetic surgical operation, then that's what my experience would've been. I probably wouldn't have been able to go through all that pain and time spent being alone. It would've been hell.
But - whatever people may think or say - I know that the operations, the time, the effort, the whole process actually was an opportunity to make my body go farther than it was ever intended to go. At least, that's what it meant to me. And that's how I got to endure through those months and the extra months that came due to complications. (That and a little help from the painkillers, that is.)
And I'm still enduring. I still have to go through rehab and learn how to walk on my own all over again (very hard to do; don't recommend it, very humbling though). But that which doesn't kill me, only makes me stronger, right? Or at least that's what I'm going with.
God, this post is so short. It seemed much longer when I was writing it on paper.
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>> The surgery that Vincent undergoes to increase his height in the movie Gattaca. It's named after the Russian doctor who invented it 40 years ago to treat dwarfism. This painful operation adds length by allowing new bone to grow in the gap left by gradually seperating ends of the broken bone. The patient's shinbones are cut in two, a brace is applied and metal pins would pull apart the bones a millimetre each day. Risks include feet permanently turned at odd angles, twisted legs, and weakened bones that break again and again.
>> What I did in June of 2005. I tell people it's either a rock climbing and/or car accident.
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