Back around 2005 I lost the ability to walk.
In 2015, I taught myself how to walk again.
It was either that or the wheel chair.
It wasn't easy - but walking is valuable.
Like freedom, walking is something you don't truly appreciate until it is gone.
Being able to walk is a kind of freedom.
I'll be back out there doing laps of the local baseball diamond this year, just as soon as the snow melts.
I do laps so I can measure my progress over time.
Probably lose 40 pounds by July.
If you want your freedom, you have to take it.
I salute your never surrender outlook ! Eye of tiger friend , eye of the tiger !
He's a Survivor. ;)
did you lose ability to walk due to being fat
Nope.
Got a puppy recently, now I have to walk. . .a lot haha.
That's precisely why I did not get one:)
Did you lose your mobility because you became morbidly obese? If so, disgusting. But you know that- and you have a tremendous amount of respect from me (whatever that's worth to you) for getting your shit together and being a man. I say this as a man who was fat as a kid. I got picked on for it a little (I was too big to really bully too much). Early in high school, I got tired of being fat, tired of being ignored by girls- so i started running. Didn't take long before girls starting noticing me, I became much more confident and thus attracted more friends/girls. All because I decided to take what I wanted. This is true masculinity- knowing what you want, and going hardly to get it.
If you lost your mobility due to injury/illness, and you still managed to overcome this, you have nothing but admiration from me.
Unfortunately, a rare chronic illness that rather altered my life.
The doctors were all waiting for me to die. Instead I clawed my way back from the abyss one step at a time.
I managed to arrive at a place I can live with. Without a wheel chair.
In the summer I train.
In the winter I shovel snow.
Is it hard? Yes it is hard. You know what I think about on the road? If that motherfucker Terry Fox could walk halfway across the country on one leg, with cancer, then I can do another lap. It doesn't matter that it is hard.
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