For everyone the word "Inspiration" means something else. Inspiration to each person is as personal as their fingerprints. Inspiration by definition means: The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feeling something, especially something creative.
For me, I personally have found an inspiration for myself. Over a year ago I was injured while working. It resulted in months of painful physical therapy on my hip. I did everything I could, but in the end I was told that without the money for the procedures, my hip would just start to heal it's self the way it is. I spent the past year walking with a cane, on medications for pain, relaxing by using a TENS unit with a heat pack on it, and working on stretching my muscles everyday.
A couple months back I put the cane away and started to walk without it. Being only 22 years old the cane was embarrassing to walk with, specially holding hands with my 3 year old daughter. It was painful to walk any more than 20 minutes at a time. I kept up with it though. I would stretch my muscles out and start walking around the block with my daughter. Over a few months span I have become able to walk the block with little to no pain. I was proud to be able to walk without a limp after more than a year.
The inspiration to start walking without the cane was honestly my daughter. For her she had gotten use to helping Momma getting her cane before we left the house, but I didn't want that to be the forever routine. She wanted to start walking the block around our new house, and I didn't want to continue to hold her back. So I put up with the pains and pushed past them. It paid off in the end. Although I still wasn't happy with where I was.
In the past few weeks I have been re-evaluated myself and my life. I am sick of being the person being held back by an injury. I am sick of seeing the pity looks from others. I am ready to move forward.
While I was watching a Taiwanese Drama (Hanazakarino Kimitachie) of the manga Hana Kimi, which I enjoy, I realized that watching it was kind of kicking me in the butt. The character that was injured gave up on his dream. But after some encouragement from a girl who crossed the ocean for him, he begins to regain the strength to continue on his dream.
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| Wu Chun (Upper left) as Zuo Yi Quan |
The character, Zuo Yi Quan (based off of Sano Izumi in the manga,) played by Wu Chun. After watching the series I wanted to learn more about the actor. I came across the information of the band he was in, Fahrenheit, and his life. I found it very enlightening to read about him. I came across a blog in which he wrote about his foot injury and how he felt about it. I could understand the post, it even made me feel like crying. He had a few quotes in there which I couldn't help but take to heart.
"You know what... I'm gonna FIGHT and let's see who is STRONGER!!!!!!!" - Wu Chun
I decided I am done taking tentative baby steps. I am ready to give it my all. I am going to fight my own battle now and beat my own injury.
Now I know that I my inspiration may never know he inspired me, but I wanted to put it out here anyway. Maybe someone else will read this become inspired. Who knows?
Links out:
Wu Chun's Blog Post that Inspired me: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/wuchun10cool/9939669
Hanazakarino Kimitachie Free Fan Subs: http://www.mysoju.com/taiwanese-drama/hana-kimi-taiwan-version/
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