You wouldn’t dare see Ben Carson as disadvantaged, as the former head of Brain Surgery at Johns Hopkins and now presidential hopeful has money and fame and has saved countless lives. Looking back, no one would ever see Theodore Roosevelt as disadvantaged, though the young fella was born weak and sickly and almost entirely set in his bed nursing one of his many ailments.
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What he has accomplished cannot be accomplished by someone with a disadvantage, yet in excusing himself from the excuses that we can give to get a free pass, an out, he’s lived a wonderful life.
You’ll meet people who pity you, who see you as someone who should be excused from the expectations that hang over the rest of us because you were born with a disadvantage.Īnd what’s incredibly and honestly hilarious about disadvantage is that it’s 100% subjective.Īs he is now, no one would call Stephen Hawking disadvantaged, yet his condition relegates him to a wheel chair and without words. You’ll have those who meet your cries with a “here here, you’re so hard done by,” or cries of their own. In this world you’ll have people pander to your complaints. It’s giving them something they haven’t earned, be it praise, money, a title, or even a compliment. No, what you need is something that comes from someone that doesn’t pity you. What you don’t need is a pat on the back saying you’re great when you’re lazy and entitled and a whiner. Within the well-intended call to claim or reclaim your self-esteem that seems to be gaining speed like fully-loaded locomotive in an attempt to make people feel better about who they are has left out one simple ingredient for true confidence: What you die with, that is, what you’ve given of yourself come time to die, this is what will dictate whether or not you are special, but more importantly, whether or not you have been valuable. What you are born with – gifts, talents, skills, interests – or what you are born into – wealth, poverty, affluence, influence, tribulation, ease – don’t matter. To be special would be to place ourselves above the masses, when it’s humility that will allow you to learn. To be perfect how we are would nullify the need for improvement, and improvement is necessary. No, you are not perfect just the way you are, nor are you special, though you are unique.
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