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Attitude, part three
By coach | March 18, 2007
Everyone struggles, some have larger burdens, some have ones you might scoff at as inconsequential and others have some too, their struggle is getting over the struggle with the struggle. Some encounter life’s gifts simultaneously to their problems. Some lead glorious lives until they and their family are undone, hopefully only for a while, by an illness, by an injury, by the loss of a matriarch and/or patriarch that had sustained them all for decades, one way or another. What are we to do? My dad would have patted you on the back gently, looked at you intently and said, “keep a stiff upper lip.” He would have then drawn you to his side and you both would have lingered for a time, saying nothing………saying everything.
When I was first injured, I can remember there seemed to be two camps about problems generally, disabilities specifically. That is, was it worse to have it occur at birth, early and the like, or was it preferable to it have become your albatross later in life? Well, have you stopped beating your dog yet, seemed to be the tenor of that offering….No time was the only acceptable answer, it was never something that should have happened. You must have been born under a dark cloud to think we need problems or tragedy at any time in our lives, any of us. And, we don’t need it, but we have it……………what we do need or should I say, is advantageous to have, is a good attitude, preferably in the DNA and/or acquired early enough to be a resource by the first year of life. All right, fifth year year of life. What? Some folks do not acquire their present state of good attitude until they are in their thirties. Neurons firing, heart pumping? It takes what it takes to acquire your own good attitude, but there are some pieces of advice, nah, wisdom, so much more appropos of the five year old or thirty year old cerebration in this arena, be patient, be observant, ask questions, put yourself in others’ position the best you can and see if you get a year of good attitude in less than a month.
When, I was at a university and had been teaching all the typical undergrad courses like abnormal, personality, adolescent psychology and one blockbuster graduate course, several faculty members approached me as a group and asked if I would teach a new course that they and the chair of the department wanted to add to the curriculuum. They had my attention and I was curious. They said it could be totally my design though it would need to be signed off on, and they then added they already had the title for the course. They wanted it to be called “Problems in Normal Life.” Remaining restrained, I was beside myself. These guys got it, somebody got it…………..there are issues of wonderfulness and disappointment everywhere, abnormal, NORMAL. Thereby you need solutions and good attitude every step of the way. I left that interaction, for a few moments, like MC Hammer, “Can’t Touch Me.”
Kevin
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May 19th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
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