THE POWERS THAT DRIVE

For the person or persons in one’s life that makes us, not uses us for their own benefits, but rather for our capabilities, our own resources, prosperity and power to drive us to overcome our obstacles in life, and the obstacles of other lives in the process.

I have been gifted my entire life with many family members who taught me the ins & outs and the rights & wrongs when the help was needed to drive me to accomplish many of life’s problems, aside from school.

School was good, and expensive, but a mathematician I was not, not then and not now, but school can’t teach you everything that you need to see firsthand on how to drive yourself for greater things in life.

And I did, but my epilepsy kept me away, always, to do more for others as they were driven to do for me. So let’s flash forward 27 years since I was ten, to June 7th, 2017, on an anniversary road trip to Portland, Maine.

(Note: A trip that I will share with you soon)

At 7a.m. after the bellhop had our luggage, which was way too much as always, on that very last minute leaving the hotel room, a broken right leg occurred caused by seizures in both a bad time and place. This should not drive you into certain circumstances that is out of your control or fault, but the pain remained, thriving since then having to walk on a broken leg while grasping the wall in a Hotel with long hallways and to stand and hold my ground, waiting for the valeted car to arrive.

And some of us take it as a test; a test from The Lord to see just how strong we are and in all actuality, it is the drive that keeps us waking up every morning, always expecting THAT day to be better than the last.

And June 7th was no different, having to hold my leg up with both hands on our entire 5 hour road trip of hills and bumps, hi-way traffic and street traffic back to New York, keeping the pressure off my leg, never to touch the ground. I had the strength and power to drive myself to do such a thing, so, I used it to the best of my capabilities.

A broken leg is sometimes just a broken leg, and we are not gods, but we are God’s creatures and children, so, we drive ourselves to find ways to better the condition that was handed down to us, and so, a double layered fiber glass cast was ordered by my doctor due to the matter of epilepsy, our best of two options which was first that surgery with a steel bar and screws would be more painful to a person suffering from falling issues.

We make choices on how to cooperate with the issue at hand to show others the way we live with what we must use to get by day after day, night after night to drive us to do good for others rather than yourself alone.

My doctor gave me some insight which is that every one pound of body weight is ten pounds on your ankles, meaning that my body weight x ten is 2,100 pounds of pressure and with all that, I have kept myself in shape so that that would have never of been an issue normally.

On crutches, in and out of wheelchairs, and on scooters lifting one leg up while the rest of you rolls yourself around homes and city streets, we find ways to recuperate by the drive that is given to us to wait as long as it takes to get the job done.

We must never forget the sacrifices that others do for us, family or friends, that gives to you all the help that they can offer to keep you in check day by day, and sometimes a bit too much before they get hurt from things they do, like straining muscles bringing your things from one place to another. This should give you just one realization - the power that drives THEM.

Depending on the severity, the problem can take up to 6- 8 weeks, 6 months to a year and then some on the recovery process, especially if the problem keeps occurring, and for an epileptic like myself, whose issues won’t falter, there is one thing that keeps me in check every day, which is

My Power to Drive to do better things for the lives of others!

EPILEPTIUM: Epilepsy and Adamantium

Speaking about Heroism to my younger readers, adults as well.

Epilepsy is a real thing,

Seizures are a real thing,

Adamantium is not a real thing, but it is something that we can refer to.

Adamantium is the regenerating metal that was put into Wolverine’s/Logan’s body by Sargent Stryker, who was his tenth experiment on mutants. Wolverine was worked on behind Professor Xavier’s back, creator of the X-Men in a school for gifted students, which were all mutants.

We have a neurological disorder and apparently so do mutants when referring to the movie LOGAN, Xavier’s seizures are so powerful that not only will he destroy himself, but the rest of the world too.

(NOTE: LOGAN is not for children or older parents)

We are not ready to be a mutant nor do we want to be, so we find ways of how to fight and win our own battles.

And the ones that do, the ones that can pop up and wipe their shoulders off after a fall from doing nothing but following orders, like Wolverine’s heroism, is something that the person in need of a hero may want to follow.

Just don’t expect to have 6 metal claws come out of your knuckles. As Logan says in X-Men played by Hugh Jackman when asked by a young Rogue, played by Anna Paquin, that releasing his claws “hurts every time”, just like Epileptium.

Epileptiums usually don’t remember the damage that they did or did not do. So, we wait until later in front of mirrors to see what had happened or what we are told by others with the marks, scars, black and blues that are pointed out to us.

Epileptiums just throw the pain aside and wait for the healing process to begin.

Think about the years and years of life’s struggles from Epilepsy and the way that we recover from seizures; sometimes without even knowing that there was a problem at all.

So, we think of Adamantium and compare it to how strong our bones, skulls and bodies are and we wonder that just maybe

Epileptium does exist!

MAKING A DIFFERENCE*

*in the lives of the sick or in need.

Having an idea of something that has not been done yet, but you may think could work, like a work in progress that has a potential for great things to come.

Putting yourself out there, even if out there does not exist for you at the time, can still give you more time at hand to keep pushing and trying new things without driving yourself mad in the process of failure.

Failure comes first, and then second, and then third until we find what is not for the people you are trying to heal by making a difference.

"My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…

The dove is my emblem…

 I want to save and advance human life,

not destroy it…

 I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill… 

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others…

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent... 

My principle business consists of giving commercial value to the brilliant,

 but misdirected, ideas of others…

 Accordingly, I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it".

These are just a few words from Thomas Edison,

As a boy he was plagued with fundamental learning disabilities that went well beyond mere deafness, such as cognition, speech, grammar, etc.

For the first four years of his life he never spoke a word, but when he finally began to, the word that his parents heard was

"WHY?"

He understood by watching and reading and wanted to know how to fix it, and knew he could. He read every book in his public library, his favorite being:

Isaac Newton who once wrote that:  

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity,

 and not the multiplicity and confusion of things”, 

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

 Tis much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others that come after,

 then to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything”. 

“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth”.

Albert Einstein said many things as well, but I chose these, to my story of how to do good for others who do good for you:

“A person who never made a mistake

 never tried anything new.” 

“Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.” 

AND -  

“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves --

This critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.

The ideals that have lightened my way,

and time after time have given me new courage

 to face life cheerfully, have beenKindness, Beauty, and Truth.”

Anybody can be a genius, and with the right mind-set of ideas and possible accomplishments, there is no end as there are stars in the sky.

So, start MAKING A DIFFERENCE!