Remembering those who never complained and were dealt stiff blows in their lives helps me to cope with my issues. My mother's Cousin Teda who had polio comes to mind. She spent a lot of her childhood in bed, didn't get to play like the other kids. She walked with a limp her whole life and was very much discriminated against because she had a disability. I am not sure of the story, but since she had this disability she was fixed up to marry a man who had issues too. But, Teda make her life into merry, making her lemons into lemonade.
In later years, she lost her son in his 30s, a man with a young family and his whole life a head of him.
She carried on.
When I think of Teda, I think of someone who always faced whatever life through at her, never complaining, always joyful for you.
Thanks, Teda. You are one of my wonderful role models to guide me through my life.
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