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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (4387)	11/2/2000 10:08:19 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

And don't forget the large voting block of other folks with DUI's. Bingo!! Btw, remember my litmus test for supreme court justices? Nice to see that GW passed it as well... Now if we can just find out if he ever got a gal pregnant (other than his wife... :0)... Btw, I want to relate a story to you real quick.. A guy I knew in high school went off and joined the Special Forces and traveled the world. Well anyway, a number of years later I discovered through a mutual friend that he had fractured his neck in a fall and was now a quadraplegic and he wanted to stop by and see him at his parent's house where he told us the story. Seems he and some buddies had made it quite a game to climb up to their 3rd story windows when they returned from partying late at night and the barracks were locked for the evening. Despite the fact that he and his buddies had done this dozens of times previously in a more intoxicated state, he slipped and fell and his life was forever permanently altered. I had the hardest time not breaking out in a tear seeing him in that wheelchair after remembering watching him play football (he was a star athlete), or remembering his voice (he sang one of the most renditions of the Beach Boys "In My Room", I've ever heard at one of our talent shows). Anyway... I was struck by the smile he had on his face and the lack of any self-pity on his part. I asked him how was able to deal with being struck down like this in the prime of his life (he was 24). His response? "I've done more things, visited more places, seen more people, in 6 years than many people are able to do in an entire lifetime... what right do I have to pity myself?" Now, I reflected on that and had to admire his perspective. I personally would have probably been wallowing in self-pity, thinking about all the wonderful things I would never be able to do again... but here Scott was, telling me that he was grateful for those opportunities other couldn't have. Not a perfect analogy, since you're child has been short-shrifted from day one. But it is an example of someone taking life's lemons and making lemonade. Each of us is only one short severe accident away from a potentially life altering event.