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12/04/2017 by Lisa McDonald

Inspirational People: Christopher Reeve -Living Life On Purpose

Super Man - Christopher ReeveInspirational People – Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve was a well known American actor, best known for his role as the super-hero “Superman”.  In 1995, aged 43, Reeve fell from his horse and landed on his head.  The accident shattered is 1st and 2nd vertebrae in his neck.  Although doctors were able to repair his neck, he was left a paralysed from the neck down.  Reeve powered his wheel chair by sucking or blowing on a straw to activate it.

Strength, Resilience and Optimism

Some people would have given up at this point.  However he continued to fight his physical limitations with incredible strength, resilience and optimism.

It wasn’t easy for him.  In fact the former Superman admitted that he cried every day dealing with the reality of being in a wheelchair. “In the morning, I need twenty minutes to cry,” he said. “To wake up and make that shift, you know, and to just say, “This really sucks”… to really allow yourself the feeling of loss … still needs to be acknowledged.”  But after his long, hard cry each day, he would tell himself, “And now, forward!”

We Are All Prisoners In Life

In some way or another, we are all  prisoners in life – some by limited thinking, others by physical limitation.  We must learn to navigate [Read more…]

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16/02/2017 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

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Today’s inspiring people video clip is about Narayanan Krishnan, a companion to the forgotten people.    He asks and answers the big question:

“What is the ultimate purpose of living …?”

In 2002 Narayanan saw an old man hitting himself out of his own hunger.

On seeing this, he stopped and asked himself:   What is the purpose of my life?  What am I going to do?”

Many people question what their purpose in life is, and many will spend time searching for the answers to that [Read more…]

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“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others”.
– Pericles

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