There was a brief item in Sunday's Chicago Tribune about t-shirts being sold at a web site called takepride.com, with portions of the proceeds going to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. The article mentioned specifically a young woman, Melissa Stockwell, who lost a leg due to a roadside bomb while serving in the US Army in Iraq in 2004.
She's been a little busy since then. Stockwell has completed eight triathlons, two New York City marathons and has set three US Paralympic swimming records. She will be competing in Beijing Paralympics beginning in September.
I didn't work out today because I didn't feel like it. I have all my limbs, I have my health and I've never had to travel to a dusty, violent place to have my leg blown off. Still, I didn't feel like working out today.
Thankfully there are people like Melissa Stockwell defending my freedom to be lazy. I would like to think, though, that she will be an inspiration to me, and many others I'm sure, to get off the couch and step into the arena of life.
(This posting also appears in my other blog, Training Days.)
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