"As the day of the operation drew closer, it became more and more painful and
frightening to contemplate. I lay on my back, frozen, unable to avoid thinking
the darkest thoughts. Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open
and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown
and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent. He announced he was my proctologist,
and that he had to examine me immediately. My first reaction was that either I
was on way too many drugs or I was in fact brain damaged. But it was Robin
Williams and for the first times since my accident, I laughed."
Crisis and pain can hold us hostage for a time, but we still have a choice in
how we will respond to our circumstances, no matter how dire. When something
disrupts our life, how do we move forward? I've seen it time and time again in
my work with victims of war atrocities there are those who fight for their lives
after devastating loss and those who succumb to their suffering. Why the
difference? To truly thrive, we must consciously choose for our lives to go on
in a positive way. Choosing life is akin to swinging between two monkey bars,
letting go of one bar just as you reach for the second. It requires faith.
Together, we are not alone. Together, we can be more. Together, surviving
happens.
No one is better equiped to change the world than those scarred by what's wrong
with it.
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