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| Thought For The Day by � Cheeta2_1999 " to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.." Towards the end of his life, my grandfather was very ill. He was on medication and was attached to a oxygen tank. He required a nurse during the day. His whole life slowed for him but he fought it every step of the way. One day, I went to visit him and learned that I had just missed one of his antics that day. Apparently he ran away from his nurse and took off on his tractor with his oxygen tank still attached! The nurse had been trying to chase him in the fields and ended up calling his sons who came and took the tractor away. When I arrived, he was in his room. I will never forget his words, " they tell me I am sick, too sick to do this, too sick to do that..but today I did it!" And he laughed! It made me relaize that we are the only ones who know what we are capable of and what we can accomplish. Though my grandfather was sick, he needed that one last joy-tractor-ride to prove a point to himself. From his spunk and gentle ways, I too hope to define myself and what I can accomplish in my life as well as he did. Maybe some call it stubbornness, I call it still living no matter what! have a good day! |