How Can I Accept my Unacceptable Disability?

     By accepting it.

     But it's hard to accept my disability because it gives me so much painful struggles almost everyday! Now, how can I accept it?

     By accepting it.

    The struggles that we have been dealing with almost everyday as handicapped are as real as physically normal people can ever imagined. They are as real as the sun's existence! There is a real struggle of adjusting and adopting to our environment where the presence of able people reminds us of our disabilities.

     There is a struggle of craving to be understood, to be accepted and treated as one of the normal people, to be cared of, and if the world is willing- to be loved unconditionally. And there is this constant struggle within of wanting to be other than what we have externally.

    Although we have different conditions of our handicaps, our struggles are rolled into one. The pains we have been through are all the same. But there is the beauty of the sameness of these. It is the fact that we can have the same willingness to accept our disabilities.
 
    Some have already accept it and are now living life with great satisfaction and peace. But probably some have not yet able to step out from the label of being handicapped, and is therefore struggling still.

    As I watched my co-differently able people excelled either in sports, arts and in any field, I began to realize that we are all the same: able and disable. That the outer image we have has not much to do in the efforts of excelling. And that it is the inner image or true self that is the only responsible on how we can be what we want to be.

    However, our inner self can not motivate its power if we can not accept our outer self, our physical differences as part of us too. Our non acceptance is blocking our "true self" to be revealed into a creative, able human being. It hinders to create a harmony within, which is supposed to be there in our daily lives.
Willingness to accept what we have physically is a kind of total surrender that would end our constant struggle. The kind of struggle that may make us "a survivor" in the end but truly wounded. And a kind of wound that can turn one into a miserable, angry person instead of of being a joyful and amazingly creative human being.

    To face the fact that there is really physical difference existed is more than a cure from struggling painfully. In it comes peace. Be aware that it is already there given, no return and no exchange. And humbly accept it. Because the good thing is that our physical is simply an outer shell, just like an outer package. Not really of great importance. Although it is the mind-setting of our culture that made some people give much importance to the outer appearance; it does not mean that we are what we appeared externally as if that's all there is. It is the content of that package that matter most where the real power within resides and is able anytime. That's the real you!