Idk...how they can still smile like that? inapprehensible to me...

[loveflower]

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I wonder what this family is made of? what kind of support they have? do they have a nanny?

 

I suppose most other people will just get very depressed, angry, exhausted and suicidal.

 

I don't know, I just can't apprehend how they could be so strong and so happy?

 

so they just take the lemons life throw at them and made it lemonade? but it's still easy said than done...

 

sigh...I just had a meltdown a few days ago, so I guess I am trying to understand how others could be so seemly mentally strong.

[Just a Guy]

I think adversity brings out the worst and best in people. The worst can be truly horrible but the best is something beautiful. Helen Keller was an example of turning adversity into an opportunity. There ate many others not so famous or well known who have overcome adversity and live near normal lives, happy to be an inspiration to others. Another example of a famous person is that of Dr. Stephen Hawking who suffers fron a debilitating and progressive muscular degenerative disease which has left him wheel chair bound and relyinh on a computer driven speech simulator which enables him to speak in an eerie computer generated voice. His brain is still active and he is still churning out theories at the cutting edge of science.

So I guess it is up to us to choose to feel sorry for ourselves or tighten our belts and decide to continue functioning optimally so that we begin to feel good about ourselves. Maybe something as simple ad making lemonade out of yhe lemons life has handed us. Cheer up!

[MidwestUSA]

I work with disabled children.

 

Sometimes, these special kids bring out smiles like normal kids can't. We have a saying, 'God gives special children to special people'. What's not to smile about?

 

 

And no, none of those I know have nannies. They may have nursing care to give them a break, but those I know are blessed with strength and infinite patience.

Edited February 6, 2016 by MidwestUSA

[WaitingForBardot]

I volunteered with severely retarded and disabled children as a candy striper while in middle school and the beginning of high school. For every family like the one in the article, there were many more barely treading water. I would be so angry at the parents that would unceremoniously dump their kids off at the center for the day. I really hated some of them. As an adult who has now raised his own children though I can understand how they just needed to take care of the same everyday things we all need to and sometimes just to escape to a few hours of normalcy.

 

At the time I was thinking of this kind of work as a possible career, but I would be so exhausted and depressed after being with the kids for just a few hours a week that I eventually had to stop. It takes a someone very special to be able to handle this over the long haul and sadly I was not up to the task.

[loveflower]

So I guess it is up to us to choose to feel sorry for ourselves or tighten our belts and decide to continue functioning optimally so that we begin to feel good about ourselves. Maybe something as simple ad making lemonade out of yhe lemons life has handed us. Cheer up!

 

Yes. It's so important that we do that.

 

sometimes I feel so sorry for myself and depressed that I can't function at all. Needed to change. No sure how to do that though.

 

In life, some people are lucky that they met someone or something that lift them up and give them wings; some times, you just meet people that make you feel so completly grounded and you can't fly at all.

 

The love of your closed ones are very important. Remind me of two very beautify Hongkong actresses. They are among the very few actresses I think truly very beautiful. One ended up killing herself by jumping from an apartment building. One who was the Miss HK, but ended up having a child with the married Jacky Chen, who initially pursued her endless and later refused to even acknowledge the mother and child. (he is a bastard). She ended up having a very hard life as a single mother and the despised other woman.

 

Beautiful women generally ended up very well in those places that value beauty above all else. but these 2 women are the exceptions. It turns out both of them have a single mother parent who are abusive. This Miss HK have a mother who used to say to her 'no man will want you even if you are a prostitute', when she was still a child.

 

It's heart breaking to read that. how could anyone say that? I can't get along with my mom. she sees things always wrong with me...but after reading the story of that actress, I think mine is not even near as that bad.

 

It's hard to believe you worth much growing up with that kind of influence.

[basil67]

Counting blessings always helped. My son was diagnosed with autism on Sept 11, 2001. (Australia time). I spent the day in a kind of fug of shock. The next day, the twin towers came down. It made me realise how fortunate I was to have a happy, healthy family.

 

We've been through some difficult times and I'm now on antidepressants (and he's medicated too now) but there are always positives to be found