I saw an interview with Michael J. Fox today and it was awesome. He said something that really hit me.
"I was Michael the actor, and then I was Michael the actor with Parkinson's and when I left Spin City I wondered if I would just be Michael the guy with Parkinson's." Then he was asked if that was how it was and he said, "I am a lot of things, a father, an activist, I am a lot of things. But Parkinson's doesn't define me. I don't let it define me."
How inspiring!
He lives with such a visual disease and he doesn't let it define him. So I began to wonder what I let define me. It is hard to not define yourself by bits and pieces that you sometimes don't have control over. I really had to figure out how I define myself.
I had to think about how I let things define who I perceived myself to be as opposed to how others viewed me. We are our harshest judge.
I want to be more like Michael J. Fox.
"I was Michael the actor, and then I was Michael the actor with Parkinson's and when I left Spin City I wondered if I would just be Michael the guy with Parkinson's." Then he was asked if that was how it was and he said, "I am a lot of things, a father, an activist, I am a lot of things. But Parkinson's doesn't define me. I don't let it define me."
How inspiring!
He lives with such a visual disease and he doesn't let it define him. So I began to wonder what I let define me. It is hard to not define yourself by bits and pieces that you sometimes don't have control over. I really had to figure out how I define myself.
I had to think about how I let things define who I perceived myself to be as opposed to how others viewed me. We are our harshest judge.
I want to be more like Michael J. Fox.
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