“The best gift I ever survived” by Stacey Kramer, is a touching video. Her story had a strong power and big faith of a survivor after fighting with brain cancer. Her words were able to touch our hearts and lift our spirits up. Throughout the story, she did not either say anything that made the audiences to feel sorry for herself or mention how painful she had been through. However, she surprised us to consider her brain tumor as a gift, which has changed her life tremendously.
Stacey Kramer was successful to point out a lot of positive thoughts from her circumstance. She did not see her sickness a curse of her life; she looked at it as an opportunity when she felt love, caring, support from her family and friends. When she was sick and panic, she did not know what was going to happen next. She valued every single thing. There was no time for argument, for hate, but she appreciated good relationships, reconnected broken ones, and built up new ones.
She realized that she had missed precious things that she took for granted from this gift. Stacey has brought a new vision to each of us. Sometimes, we pursue money and material life that are very tempting to us. Therefore, we work hard to possess it. When sickness happens to us, we realize which is really the most important to us “Peace, health, ‘serenity, happiness, ? nirvana. ” Although life is getting tough, we will not give up. No matter how hard it will be, be strong and be positive to deal with it. She wanted to share her story in order to motivate us.
At least, there is a time in our life, things will go wrong and happen unexpectedly the way that we never wish it to be. Do not panic, but see it may be just a gift. “Living Beyond Limits,” by Amy Purdy, was a special story of an indomitable spirit with an incredible positive life force. Amy is an inspiration to us all. We can only hope to follow her example in our own small ways. She achieved her goals regardless of her circumstances. I heard stories similar to Amy’s, and people in those stories ended up killing themselves.
They were shocked; they felt hopeless and useless after a while sitting on a wheel chair and being treated as a disability. It drained them out. They gave up their life. If I were Amy, I would completely collapse and go crazy, and may kill myself as well. A pretty, young girl, who was growing up with a lot of beautiful dreams and eager to explore a new world, was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. It took her legs, a spleen and kidneys, left her a wheel chair, and then a pair of fake legs. How will a normal person be able to accept it?
Do not let depression take over her life. She strongly stood up, accepted reality but not its boundary. She overcame it by looking the other positive side of her disability. She did want to be a normal person, desperately to snowboard again. Her strong spirit took her above her obstacles. She turned negative to positive, turned tears to laughter, turned impossibility to possibility, and even made it incredibly. I believe that her story has been inspiring a lot of people who are disable, who are struggled, and who are hopeless.
Her example has brought air into a lot of people’s lives to help them open a new chapter in their lives. After watching these two video clips, I learned a lot from these two strong and brave women. They do not give up their lives. They accept reality and move on. They have transformed their misfortune into their blessings to a lot of people by sharing us their stories. They did not keep it as a failure of their life. They have inspired people with their strong will and faith. Their experiences are good lessons for others to learn and follow.
