Jack’s Winning Words  4/17/20
“I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.  I am what I am.  I love me.  (Stevie Wonder)  When Stevie Wonder says, “I love me,” he’s not saying it as a narcissist.  He’s simply satisfied with who he is.  Blind since birth, he’s grown up to be a Hall of Fame musician.  At age 11, he was signed by Motown and paid $2.50 a week.  He didn’t see himself as disadvantaged.  “I am what I am.”  ;-)  Jack

FROM TRIHARDER:        My uncle was blind  -- Abe Nemeth -- a world renowned mathematician. It was an embarrassing privilege to be around him because he had virtually no limitations and accepted no excuse for the inability of others. ===JACK:  My sight is being affected by macular degeneration...and I don't like it.  I "see" the time when I can't drive, when I can't do this and that.  It's a learning curve, and I imagine Abe had a learning curve, too.  He sounds like a great person.

FROM GOOD DEBT JON:  Inspiring===JACK:  I was able to Google him as a little boy.  Amazing!

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  He has a tremendous outlook on himself and life.  Imagine what this world would be like if everyone thought like he did!===JACK:  Try wearing a blindfold for 5 minutes, or more.  Let me know how it feels.

FROM JB IN WB:  I never met Stevie Wonder, but I was a student teacher in the class he was in. He had just left before I got there. The “critic” teacher told me about Stevie. She said he was a really good person, and she predicted much success for him. She also said the other students wanted to go with him to Motown and that we should be careful not to promise them anything. He was in 5th grade then and he never came back to that school, he went to The School for the Blind in Lansing. ===JACK:  What a fascinating story.  The teaching profession provides a way to affect the lives of so many people...sometimes known and sometimes unknown.  The same with pastors.

FROM VW MARY:  A great attitude.===JACK:  It is a BE---attitude.  What do I really want to be?

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  I was blind for two weeks.  I cut my in the shape of a footprint and was in bed upstairs at my mom and dad’s house.  There was no bathroom up there.  Kimberly was two months old.  They watched the baby downstairs but I was up there by myself.  Both eyes were covered so I couldn’t move them.  It was very painful and very frightening.  My dad helped me down the stairs.   I guess if your born not seeing it’s different than loosing it when you seen first awhile.  I’m not sure which one would be worse or...maybe not...like Stevie!===JACK:  How about those who have always been poor and never experienced "rich?"  Is that easier than having been rich and becoming poor....or, going into prison compared to being released from prison?