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You see, Mom and Dad taught us that just like you would never let someone else come into your house with an axe and allow them to break up your furniture, you should never let a damaging thought come into your mind and break up your dreams. The next day the nurse walked into George’s room to find him lying flat on his face on the floor.
"What’s going on in here?" asked the shocked nurse.
"I’m walking," George calmly replied.
George refused the use of any braces or even a crutch that was given to him. Sometimes it would take him twenty minutes just to get out of the chair, but he refused any offers of aid. I remember seeing him lift a tennis ball with as much effort as a healthy man would need to lift a 100 - pound barbell. I also remember seeing him, six months later, step out on the mat as captain of the wrestling team. George’s rehabilitation from the devastating effects of polio was written up all over the state of Missouri. No one had ever been known to recover so quickly or so completely from this disease.
George had a dream, to be captain of the wrestling team but Polio seemed to be stealing that dream from his very grip, and he wasn't ready to accept that or the doctor's opinion either. He remembered, in the midst of his busted lips - in the form of Polio - from the ring of life the goal he had to achieve. Like someone said, "when you feel like giving up, remember why you started in the first place." George did.
When life gets too hard to stand up to, kneel to God. Walk even though situations say otherwise. When Ford, when was told that a V8 engine wasn't possible to create he replied, "do it anyway." Life will constantly punch you, and tell you that you can't, but like George take your eyes off "your" ailment and be what you were wired to be. It's okay to fail, but you're not allowed to be a failure. You're a victor against all odds. All those negativity belong in hell.
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