It is about getting better...
Rizal Philippines
November 19, 2016
I have been sidelined for almost a month by a viral infection that rendered me disabled because I had loss of vision (I had double vision) and loss of faculty to think because of severe head ache. I had viral infection that affected th nerves going to the eyes. And it was very painful. The most potent analgesic could not get rid of the pain. I took a drug that enabled me to sleep at once but the pain is back as soon as I woke up. Thus I could not bike, nor work, nor blog.
It is great now that the disease took its natural course; the eye defect is gone although the pain around the eye and face is not gone.
While I was sick, I exercised, did the stationary bike, tried to read whenever I can and kept myself in general physically fit. And I am often reminded that events like this humbles you and you focus on the things that you can do, and you pray a lot. The loss of these faculties which are source of my pride means that I am disabled and probably as good as being dead. But I did my best to get myself back to the harness by exercise, taking all the medicine, following the doctors advice, etc. I did brisk walking am and pm and did my best to lead a normal life (which was not) I tried to socialize although people would notice some of the signs of the disease
I learned my lesson that you have to savor life as it is and do the best you can while you still can
And now, before Christmas, I will probably be well.
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Saturday, November 19, 2016
Friday, November 1, 2013
Focus on the ability, on what you have rather than what you do not have.
It is about getting better...
I just watched Malcolm Gladwell at GPS on CNN discuss the disabled become successful in his book David and Goliath. The host objected to the examples given saying for example, Richard Branson, who suffers from dyslexia (inability to read) as more of an exemption. Gladwell is criticized for making unfounded claims in his bookBut Gladwell continues to say that the deficiency in one ability forced the individual to develop abilities which one has. They tend to overcompensate. Thus the blind has sharp sense of hearing and touch. (Or may develop bat like capability to detect objects by clicks) Thus lawyer David Boyle, since he could not read had to rely on his memory while taking up law. And this serves him well during the trial because he can remember the testimonies better than the clerks and catches lying witnesses or defendants.
On David and Goliath. Small companies are like David like Microsoft in the beginning. Now it is a lumbering and slow giant, a Goliath. How can big companies become David still? Seems contradictory (or oxymoron?)
It is important for anyone to develop what he has, not what he does not have. Most corporate man who venture into their own seek for things that he does not have like market research or big time ads. He has to learn to live and survive on his own. Thus the disabled are strategic - very strategic because they survive with faculties that are left to them. And maybe begging does not give them dignity.
We thus find a blind like Rose Ambabuyog who was supported though by Ateneo President Fr Ben Nebres to become a magna cum laude Math Major at Ateneo.
Thus there is a joke about a blind who went into a wager with a normal person for a large sum to play 18 holes of golf. However the condition was that: it would take place at night without lights.
But many modern people, steeped in consumerism forget this basic lesson: "Buying things they do not need, with money they do not have, to impress people they do not know"
I just watched Malcolm Gladwell at GPS on CNN discuss the disabled become successful in his book David and Goliath. The host objected to the examples given saying for example, Richard Branson, who suffers from dyslexia (inability to read) as more of an exemption. Gladwell is criticized for making unfounded claims in his bookBut Gladwell continues to say that the deficiency in one ability forced the individual to develop abilities which one has. They tend to overcompensate. Thus the blind has sharp sense of hearing and touch. (Or may develop bat like capability to detect objects by clicks) Thus lawyer David Boyle, since he could not read had to rely on his memory while taking up law. And this serves him well during the trial because he can remember the testimonies better than the clerks and catches lying witnesses or defendants.
On David and Goliath. Small companies are like David like Microsoft in the beginning. Now it is a lumbering and slow giant, a Goliath. How can big companies become David still? Seems contradictory (or oxymoron?)
It is important for anyone to develop what he has, not what he does not have. Most corporate man who venture into their own seek for things that he does not have like market research or big time ads. He has to learn to live and survive on his own. Thus the disabled are strategic - very strategic because they survive with faculties that are left to them. And maybe begging does not give them dignity.
We thus find a blind like Rose Ambabuyog who was supported though by Ateneo President Fr Ben Nebres to become a magna cum laude Math Major at Ateneo.
Thus there is a joke about a blind who went into a wager with a normal person for a large sum to play 18 holes of golf. However the condition was that: it would take place at night without lights.
But many modern people, steeped in consumerism forget this basic lesson: "Buying things they do not need, with money they do not have, to impress people they do not know"
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