life were a book and you were the author, how would you like the story to go? That is the question that 41 my life forever.
One day I went home from the training of snowboarding with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later, I was in a hostipal on life support with less than two percent chance of living. It wasn’t until days later that the doctors diagnosed me with a serve blood infection. Over the course of 2.5 months, I lost the hearing in my left ear and both my legs below the knee. When my parents wheeled me out of the hospital, I felt like that I had been put together like a patchwork (拼缝物) doll and I had to live with false legs. I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken, tears streaming down.
But I knew in order to move forward, I had to let go of the Old Amy and hug the New Amy. It was at this moment that I asked myself that significant question . And that is when it dawned on me that I didn’t have to be five-foot-five anymore, but I could be as tall as I wanted. And best of all, I can make my feet the size of all the shoes. So there were beneftis here.
Four months later, I was back upon a snowboard . And this February, I won two Board World Cup gold medals, making me the highest ranked snowboarder in the world.
So, instead of looking at our challenges and our limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin looking at them as a wonderful gift that can be used to help us go further than we ever know we could go.