Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Lillys dad" data-source="post: 657655" data-attributes="member: 9635">My 0.02 worth. this is a major philosophy in my life. It is a direct answer to the question posed. This is the way that I plan on explaining Lillys deafness to her when she gets old enough to wonder and ask &quot;why&quot;.Everyone has had tragedy in their lives. Everyone has had bad things happen to them. How you respond to these bad things will define you as a person. (No, I do not think that her hearing loss is bad. You know as well as I do that she will struggle before coming togrips with the fact that she is different and accepting herself for who and what she is, sorry, back on topic)When facing suffering and tragedy, you have two options in life. You can let it get under your skin and fester until you are comsumed by it. You can let it define you as a negative person who useses their tragedy as a crutch, by using it as the reaon they fail at anything or everything. The tragedy becomes the excuse in their lives for everything.ORWhen dealing with tragedy, you absorb it. Greve over it or what ever else you chose to do. When finished coming to grips with the experience, you turn your experience inward as strength. You use it as a personal example of survival. Use it as a source of strenght. If you made it through that hard time, you can make it through just about anything. This is using tragedy as strength.So, you can do either with whatever circumstance makes you wonder about this question. You can use it as a crutch, or you can use it as a learninjg experience to make you stronger.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lillys dad, post: 657655, member: 9635"] My 0.02 worth. this is a major philosophy in my life. It is a direct answer to the question posed. This is the way that I plan on explaining Lillys deafness to her when she gets old enough to wonder and ask "why". Everyone has had tragedy in their lives. Everyone has had bad things happen to them. How you respond to these bad things will define you as a person. (No, I do not think that her hearing loss is bad. You know as well as I do that she will struggle before coming togrips with the fact that she is different and accepting herself for who and what she is, sorry, back on topic) When facing suffering and tragedy, you have two options in life. You can let it get under your skin and fester until you are comsumed by it. You can let it define you as a negative person who useses their tragedy as a crutch, by using it as the reaon they fail at anything or everything. The tragedy becomes the excuse in their lives for everything. OR When dealing with tragedy, you absorb it. Greve over it or what ever else you chose to do. When finished coming to grips with the experience, you turn your experience inward as strength. You use it as a personal example of survival. Use it as a source of strenght. If you made it through that hard time, you can make it through just about anything. This is using tragedy as strength. So, you can do either with whatever circumstance makes you wonder about this question. You can use it as a crutch, or you can use it as a learninjg experience to make you stronger. [/QUOTE]

Verification