Stories of intrepid attitude towards life

Welcome to my new world of writes. Today, I want to tell you a story of three girls who are anything but ordinary.

First, is the story of a girl who suddenly had a Pneumonia attack and ended up in the emergency ward of a hospital. She went into a coma and eventually died i.e. a doctor declared her dead. However, they gave it one last chance and gave her a revival through electric shocks and she miraculously came back to life! However, when she came back to life, she was paralyzed from the abdomen and under. She was eventually discharged from the hospital. One day, this happened again, she was hospitalized again, she died again, she came back to life again and was discharged from the hospital. The same thing happened to her six times over. It wreaked havoc on her body but she lived. Her family lived in a rented house and the landlord asked them to get rid of the daughter because she was such a burden but they didn't like what he said, so they decided to leave and build their own home and lived happily ever after. She eventually became famous and started giving motivational talks.

The second story is of twin girls who were born with a deformed body which was not very pleasing to look at. People would often say to their parents "what kind of daughters have you given birth to?" and "you should have killed them when they were born". The parents refused to heed to such a sick mentality and they loved their daughters as much as any "normal" human being would to their "normal" children. When they grew up, they both exhibited excellent talent in singing. They became famous through their singing and they all are living happily ever after.

These aren't some concocted stories produced in my mind, these are true stories of three

brave girls. So, what is the lesson we learn from these inspirational personalities? It's simple and maybe not that difficult a philosophy to follow in life. The girl in the first story now shares in her motivational talks how she and her parents never gave up, never got tired of trying and one day their plight came to an end. Because of her paralysis, she gained a lot of weight and the relatives would sometimes say something like "look at her, she's become so fat because she's so useless". It would hurt her feelings but she never gave up on the simple philosophy that life is beautiful. Life is meant to be lived with a positive attitude, it is a gift we all have, that one chance to exist on this planet. What are you going to do with this one chance?

The other lesson we learn is that life, as beautiful as it is, will sometimes throw unimaginable challenges at us such as (God forbid) birth of a deformed child. What are you going to do then? Get rid of the child? First of all, no healthy individual would even think of murdering someone, leave alone their own child! But say that that was a solution. What if life throws another problem at you, are you going to keep escaping like a coward? Or are you going to take it in your stride, be a boss and own the struggles as your own and make them a beautiful part of your life's story?

Sometimes we are drowned so deep into our problems, we fail to see the larger perspective. For that, you have to zoom out and take a fresh perspective which will help you deal with your problems. No one's problem is small, to each their own, but every challenge can be lived through. There are at least a million cases in this world, of people who faced unprecedented challenges in life and they triumphed simply because of their positive, life-loving, attitude. If they can, so can you.

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