Link to Amy Purdy's Talk: Living beyond limits
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In Amy Purdy’s Talk: Living beyond limits, she opens with the question, “If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?” She then explains the situation which first made her ask herself this question, and that was a rare disease that left her with a 2% chance of living. Purdy lived, but she sadly lost both of her legs in the process. While this was a hard phase of Purdy’s life, it also forced her to find her inner confidence and positivity to push through her situation and move on with her life. Instead of seeing the bad in the situation, she saw the good: with prosthetic legs, she could now be as tall (or short) as she wanted, she could have whatever shoe size she wanted, and her feet would no longer get cold when she went snowboarding. Purdy’s personal story reminds us all that there is good in every situation, and each one of us can choose to see the bad, and live an unhappy life, or we can choose to see the good and make the best out of our situations and be happy.
Question for you all: If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?
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