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That the things in life which don’t go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do. You need to expect the unexpected, to embrace it. The best way, I am about to discover, is not always the easy way.
To be sensitive to change, then, is to ensure survival.
If someone says you can do something, if you can see they really believe it, it puts that possibility within your grasp.
We do what we have to do to survive; as a species, we are inventive in the face of adversity.
The knowledge that I was lucky to be alive, that it could so easily have been otherwise, skewed my thinking. I viewed my continuing life as an extra, a bonus, a boon: I could do with it what I wanted. And not only had I tricked death but I had escaped a fate of incapacity. What else was I going to do with my independence, my ambulatory state, except exploit it for all it was worth?
