What we really capable of doing
By Avi Alog
Every day we see proofs that everything is possible in life, but we still choose to say we are not.
Let's take some examples, proofs from our world:
Ray Charles, a very famous singer in the world, for those of you who didn't know, he lost his eyesight ability when he was seven years old, the man is playing the piano and sings at the same time, one of the most talented singers the world ever saw!
He didn't saw his blindness as limitation, he believed that he can do it when everyone though he couldn't.
Steven Hawking, a man who has muscular dystrophy, he is an astrophysicist, theoretician and a researcher of the evolution of the universe.
He got to a situation when all of his body collapsed except his eyeballs, a situation that caused a development of a special talking software that can detect his eyeballs movement and translate it into words and by that he could communicate and keep with his work.
He did the impossible, why? Because he believed, he didn't saw his sickness as a limitation, he believed himself and in his way.
Some of you may say to yourself, well, he is giving us examples of one in a million, alright then...
Have you ever heard about cripple basketball league?
It's about people that lost their ability to walk or people that were born like that, they decided that it's not a limitation for them and they are playing in basketball leagues all over the world, and some of them get even to the Olympics.
What about painters, one's that lost their hands or born without them, have you heard about that? Amazing people that create masterpieces with their feet, something that it very hard to realize in the normal human brain.
they decided it's not a limitation to be without hands, and did the impossible.
What about people with intellectual disabilities around the world, that don't think for one second they are like that, and they wake up every morning and go to their jobs with a smile on their face, and the list goes on and on....
All of us get to see those examples, in TV, in the news, on the street, we see proofs every day, but still we look at it as a temporary thing without realizing the weight of this amazing thing that occur in from of our eyes.
So after all those examples I wrote, can we dare say that we are not capable of doing things, that there is no way, the if we failed once we are not gonna try again, that we don't have the talent.
Most of us, thank god(or for who you believe or not), have two legs, two eyes, two hands, healthy mind, we already made it half way, we don't need to get over these obstacles the people with disabilities went through, we just need to believe in ourselves, in our way, believe we can do the impossible, if we just dare.
Back then, people thought there is no way to communicate with someone that is on the other side of the world.
Today we can see that person and we can do it from a small clever phone.
Humanity proofing us every day that everything is possible, but somehow, somewhere, in ourselves, we don't see it.
We see those people that made so much for the world as unreal, special, lucky or whatever you will call it, but to tell you the truth, those people are like you and me, flesh and blood, with the same skeleton we have, people that were sick like get sometimes, that were upset or angry like we are sometimes, that fall somewhere along the way too like we did, but something in them was different, they believed, in themselves, in their way.
The world is trying to show us every day that we can do so much more than we even think, that we are capable of doing whatever we want, that we came to this world to live in our totally best way, that we are more than mother and father, more than husband and wife, more than we ever thought we can be, we can be the best of everything we want, our life can be more meaningful, more satisfying, we have in our hands the ability to do everything, the one and only thing we need to do is believe.
Don’t ever say you can't do anything, don’t ever de-estimate yourself and your abilities, we are amazing creatures, we are all intelligent, we are all smart in our own ways, each and every one of us are good at something, the world is big enough for all of us, to be included in it, give your very best in whatever you feel like giving, we need to know that we are part of an amazing power, an amazing race, start thinking batter on yourselves, start believing that you are worthy, that life is an amazing thing and we should live it to the maximum.
Do what makes you feel alive and happy, we came to live, so let's do it in the best way we can imagine!!!