People with disabilities like Christina who have had and were, or are, in constant pain for years and years and years but live whatever quality of life they have to the full, by living their lives, such as they are, give us the true definition of what "character" means.
These individuals realise from a very young age that the "world does not owe anybody a living" and that "life is what you make it." Whether this life is a bare one hour or 100 years, it is not the number of years but the way each second is "lived."
In the end, "it is not the winning that counts... it is the participation."
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"The Meaning of True Grit"
Date: 2006-03-14 09:45 pm (UTC)These individuals realise from a very young age that the "world does not owe anybody a living" and that "life is what you make it." Whether this life is a bare one hour or 100 years, it is not the number of years but the way each second is "lived."
In the end, "it is not the winning that counts... it is the participation."
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