On living disabled

Today’s Just Be thought

This started out as a thought on fulfilment and contentment with what we’ve accomplished. This is different from pride, as pride insists that others know of the accomplishment.

However, this thought very quickly changed when I saw this quote. It’s about disabilities. I’d love to add more to this but simply can’t. What better way to be in a moment with someone when this is on our mind?

Mister Rogers has a way of making each of us feel welcome in the neighborhood.

“Part of the problem with the word ”disabilities’ is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can’t feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren’t able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.”

Fred Rogers

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