While reading the three stories by Cooper, Mairs, and Bordo I found Mairs and her story "On Being A Cripple" to be important to me because it describes how a woman was normal, meaning able to walk, run, and basically do everything and anything she wanted, is now a "crippled."
As I was reading Mairs story "On Being A Cripple," I found myself feeling sorry for her, but then also envying her. I felt sorry for her when she talked about getting multiple scierosis, "which is a chronic degenerative disease of the central nervous system, in which the myelin that sheathers the nerves is some how eaten away and scar tissue forms in its place, interrupting the nerve's signals." She couldn't do all the things that she did before like running, sailing, and riding a bicycle. Now she has to walk with the aid of a brace and cane because her left leg is weak. But as I read futher I began to envy her because Mairs knew she was a "cripple" but really didn't care. She lives her life day to day without no regrets. Even though sometimes she does get frustrated, she does not let it bring her down.
Mair can't really do anything , however, she doesn't give up but insead lives her life day to day. She shows how you can either dwell in misery because your life has changed complete or how you can accept the change and deal with it and move on. Like Louise Bogan said "To escape is nothing. Not to escape is nothing."
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