Feeling limited?

Blind Paralympian Verity Smith is amazing! She was told at the age of eight that due to a rare genetic disorder, she would soon lose her sight. Having competed on horseback since she was five, her response was unexpected. “It’s okay, my horse can see for me.”

In the years since losing her sight, Verity has become an elite internationally-ranked athlete, a singer and songwriter who has collaborated with Oscar-winning and Grammy-nominated artists, and is a spearhead of campaigns in advocacy of the Ability in Disability (to list just a few of her accomplishments.) She’s hoping to be the first blind rider in the world to win both a Paralympics and an Olympic medal in the field of international dressage riding.

She used the phrase “the ability in disability” quite a lot, meaning that a ‘disability’ doesn’t necessarily ‘dis-able’ a person. If we wors hard and step up to whatever challenges us, there’s no difference between us and every other competitor. “Blindness doesn’t matter.”

It can help us remember that our challenges are definitely manageable.

Do the events of these last six months seem insurmountable?

Let’s remember what Henry Ford is reputed to have said…

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

What do YOU see?