Who am I kidding?
Look, I’m coming to realize that maybe I’m setting my goals too high. I mean I have always been a huge dreamer, dreams of a fortune 500 company, a 100ft+ yacht, an astrophysicist!!!!
I live at home and I just turned 27, granted I did suffer severe head trauma and I do realize its live at home again……still, no excuse in my mind.
I feel like it is all collapsing on me again….I feel like this has happened to me before. Throughout my life I have had serious ebbs and flows like I just can’t get it right.
Maybe its that HE hasn’t figured out my plan, all-knowing……I don’t want to be blasphomous but….all-knowing should mean, ahhhh scratch that……I don’t even know what I’m talking about posting on the world-wide web this gutter trash. Who am I kidding?
Am I giving you hope? Does it help you to read about another man’s struggle?
I feel like I’m crazy or at least soon-to-be. Have I lost my mind?
you inspire me, man. your progress recently has simply amazed me. believe and achieve.
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
-Orison Swett Marden
I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted a comment but believe you me, I still check your blog everyday. You have made SO much progress in the past 21 months. You have BLOWN AWAY everybody- friends, family, DOCTORS, therapists. In the past, you have accomplished great things and there is NO doubt in my mind that you will continue to do so. So, keep your goals high! Keep that gaze fixed to infinity and beyond!
Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail”. (Sorry for all the quotes today but that’s just how much YOU inspire ME!) You have to “rise up” each time there’s a set back. Sh*t is going to happen. You just can’t dwell on it; you can’t dwell in the ebbs of life.
Hope is VERY alive, Mike! Chin up, and keep it up!
Hang in there! It sounds like you have made an unreal amount of progress in a pretty short time. We are all cheerin’ for ya.
Hey quote queen,
Ya know I actually got word recently about my CONTINUED progress and I feel like your post and that news were just what I needed to hear then.
Thank you
I think we may be on the verge of something…doctor said that he would expect another substantial gain, so let’s get ready for blast-off guys.
I promised people originally for outrageous feats of the human will and I think its about time I put my money where my mouth is, so to speak
Keep Hope Alive
Mike you have progress so far and yes you are still that wonderful amazing grandson that we love. So you live at home did it every occur to you that is where you belong and that God has a plan for you. We as your family are behind you 100% so keep going.
It is hard to let our children go and I miss my babies every day. I enjoyed them and wished that they were back home so I know that your family is glad that you are there so they can rejoice with you everyday. Love Boufie and Pops
Mike,
I cannot agree more with the everyone who has responded to this post. You just left my house after a late night bowling, and I am thinking that walking away from that accident was a gift. That the brain injury is a miracle. I dont quite know how to say it, but it appears to me that you have a new brain. Which means that you have new eyes, and new hands, and a new voice, and new ears, and a new perspective on life. I remember seeing you become concious for the first time after being in the coma, and you could not talk. But you looked at me.
And, that was the beginning. Everyday is a celebration of so many things, but you are now openly celebrated everyday. And not because you own a yacht, or you studied astrophysics, but a much more humble and simple celebration. One we can all understand. Just waking up and being alive, and climbing everyday. Higher and higher, and I’m coming with you.
Tommorow we swim and start with 400 yards again. Climbing. Tommorow we go to Dito and I imagine I will see you again, buzzing with positive energy and creative thinking. Climbing. And I know you will push yourself in all the physical and cognitive therapy you do every day. Climbing. Climbing. How about we go hiking one day?
k(now) w(here)