Friday, 23 April 2010
Life is a choice
No one in America who forget Wilma Rudolp, sickly child who turned into a sports heroine. How attitudes change when Wilma and her family from poverty changed his life wallowing in wealth, appreciation and respect?
The courage to be "something" that makes the best individuals dare to change his life from one stage to a better and more of an experience into a more stable experience. The story of life transformation experienced by Wilma Rudolph, an admirable heroine who diajang Olympics.
How Wilma Rudolph was able to transform a loyalty to something meaningful, while many others just a fight for life is empty and without meaning. There is only one simple answer. Person's success in finding a strong purpose or reason to change his life is influenced by many factors. Both internal and external.
Family support, religious beliefs, natural talent, as well as social pressure, it can reduce or increase the motivation of individuals to change his life. But there is one important and dominant factor, That is how one defines the concept itself. Did he decide sees himself as a tragic victim of a cruel fate, or a hero who is destined for greatness?
As someone born poor, needy, depressed, have no talent what-what, sick or experiencing all are at the same time, he doubted his life. Yet even though his life difficult, he can still change and live it fully to achieve success.
Wilma G. Rudoph athletes are athletic branch of his childhood living in poor and sickly. Now he became the first American woman to win the first gold medals in one Olympics branch. He was born prematurely in 1940 in Tennessee, United States.
He is the 20th child of 22 brothers. Parents named Ed and Blance Wilma Rudolph was an honest person, hardworking and very poor. His father was a porter at one station and his mother as a laundress at the white man's clothes.
Wilma Small masses stained by misfortune and disease. He was born with polio followed measles, mumps, chicken pox and pneumonia acute near-fatal. That's because due to the existence of racial where black people are not allowed to seek treatment in hospital whites.
There is only one black doctor, and suggested that Wilma should be treated at home for years.
Wilma situation instead of getting better. But worse off, where his legs getting weaker and vulnerable. The doctor also suggested that Wilma was hospitalized because Wilma is ensured polio disease and will occur because there is no cure paralysis
Rudolph's parents did not give up. Every two weeks, Rudolph's mother brought her son to visit a doctor and travel 50 miles for the healing of small Wilma. A doctor taught, so that Wilma must frequently exercise at home. And soon, the whole family helps Wilma learn road in conditions that crooked legs and weak.
In a period of two years (1950-1952) and 12-year-old right Wilma, his efforts to train with the family in total, sunguh seriously and be patient, show remarkable results. Wilma was able to walk normally without the aid of crutches and shoes amplifier. From where Wilma dream about being an athlete.
to be continued .... (In the copy and translated from pojokjakarta.com)
