We live in a very visual society - “What you see is what you get“.  That might prove true with pasta, but never people.  No matter who we are looks are only surface.  We must look beyond. Discover the person, not just their shell.

All of my life I have dreamt of helping others.  This may sound trite, but it’s very true.  Growing up with significant disability I never thought it would be possible. For years life seemed like it was through a window… Something I could look at, but never touch. This is reality for many - too many. 

 

Disability can become all we see. Like a neon sign in the night sky. Do you see beauty and possibility? Or garish and flashy colors? Stars, moon, infinite...all become secondary.  And all because our eye is drawn to the closest most superficial thing. Do the heavens cease? No.
Our view has become obstructed. We must learn to look beyond the sign and see sky.

I have never wanted anything more than to live a life determined by me and to help others do the same. We are all different while we are all alike. Success comes from human spirit, and that is in us all.
 

Sarah Dunion © 2006