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Tuesday, February 17. 2015

Life happens

Daniel Riley discusses losing his legs from an IED: "I do more with no legs than I ever did with two legs."





Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 16:00 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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This is a great talk! We control more of our lives than we're willing to admit but part of that control is that we control how we react to not only the things we can control but also the things we cannot.

A lot of people don't realize how empowering that is that you are responsible for your life. The people (mostly who are doing well in their life) who tell those who are not that they aren't responsible for their plight are doing the most destructive thing they can do to those people. It doesn't relieve them of pain or guilt or whatever they may intend. Instead it relieves them of the power to do something about where they are in their life. And that is the story of the welfare state.
#1 mudbug on 2015-02-17 16:42 (Reply)
That guy isn't a quitter, or a whiner. We need more like him.
#2 model_1066 on 2015-02-17 19:57 (Reply)

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