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a good case study.
when confronted with problems in life (and motor neurone disease is a biggie), we either identify with the problem, become butthurt and resentful and we go down
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we see the problem as a path to growth, we rise to the challenge and we go up.
there are no other possibilities.
certainly steven could have become resentful, there's reason to, the problem is that it doesnt help.
what would 99.9 % of people have done when confronted with this problem, what would fat steve and fat janeen have done.
Marched down to centrelink and immediately gone into "taker" mentality, immediately gone into victim hood, self pity and bitterness.
its a very rare person that can rise above that.
its a rare person that can have the bottom fall out of their world but still pick up their cross and carry it as far up the hill as possible, without resentment and with a spirit of contribution.
theres nobility and glory in accepting challenges without resentment
Jung would call hawking an "archetypal hero" and ask us to study what he did and try to do what he did.
very few will.
the mainstream media and the cultural hypnosis are full of stories of people denied the disability pension, precious snowflakes who got all butt hurt because someone offended them, people who are encouraged to be victims their whole lives.
there is no nobility in that, there is no glory in that.
thats the path to creating a personal hell here on earth.
there was justification for hawking to do just that. tragedy isnt hell, but the modern groupthink encourages most people to make every little disappointment into hell. How ugly and how mediocre .
well done Mr Hawking, hope you have a biography ready to be read
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