Adversity's Hope

I’m 19 years old getting in a car to go to school one moment and involved in a tragic accident the next, which holistically took everything from me except my life. Mentally, I went from a confident young man to a timid boy. I became physically paralyzed, emotionally unavailable, ashamed of my image and left spiritually searching for answers as to why this is happening to me. 

 

After years of hoping, praying and wishing I could walk again, depression, frustration and anger had firmly set in. Where one day the fatigue of depression weighed heavy on me. As I sat in my wheelchair at the edge of my pool thinking how much life sucked. I gazed out on the yard then my eyes dropped and stared down at the pooI and I said, “Why don’t you drive yourself in? People only want you for your money, other than that you are no good for anything. You’re useless, stupid and ugly. Don’t kid yourself, people don’t consider you a man, you’re a head on a stick remember?. 

 Afterward I made up my mind that I needed truth. Because, if there is no ideology that could make sense of evil death and suffering. I was going to finish what I started and end up at the bottom of my pool. So I got to work, researching worldviews from Islam, Hinduism, Atheism, Agnosticism, Pantheism, Christianity, Buddhism to the Bahai faith and came to the conclusion that Christ is who he says and life was abou relationships. 

 

I felt full. I know I have reasons to live. I have innate worth and so does everybody else. I felt an overwhelming love for people and understood how important relationships really are …I want to help people despite my physical limitations, despite having a different worldview, despite being rejected by social norms, despite being told what I can’t do. I’m here for a reason… and that reason is to meet you where you are in life and tap into your success by discovering your worth.