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WRITING PROMPT 3
What Helps You Keep Going When You Have Nowhere to Turn?
What Helps You Stay Grounded and Focused?
We all have endured some hiccups or bumps in our life. Maybe some of you have gone through more than others. How do you keep going when there’s no one and nowhere to turn? How do you stay focused and grounded?
I read this story about the Gordons. Dr. Leslie Gordon gave a TED Talk about the time she and her husband received some very difficult news about their 22-month-old son. He had been diagnosed with a rare syndrome, progeria, which makes a person age quickly, leading to premature death.
With very little research for Dr. Gordon to turn to, she soon realized that she was on her own as she navigated an area of medical research that had not really been touched. She and her husband were going to have to advocate and find their own path, taking up their torches daily. Thus, the Progeria Research Foundation was founded.
Sometimes that is what life is about. Sometimes you have to take up your own torch, and sometimes it ends up with you helping others by starting a foundation.
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