What We Can Learn From David Blaine Part I

[jmjm530]

Most of the headlines this morning read something like "David Blaine Fails To Set World Record" or "Blaine's Buildup Fizzled" or David Blaine's Bubble Burst." But isn't this simply a case of catergorizing the glass (or let's say the bubble)as half empty when it really was half full?
     To me, what Blaine accomplished was amazing and inspiring, raising the bar for what is possible with the human mind, body and spirit.
     There was one part that struck home during his Navy Seal training sessions when Blaine was doing pushups in the hot sand. The  Seal instructor said something like "block out the pain, it doesn't exist", just connect with who you are and it the pain will disappear.
     But more telling was another part, where Blaine was meeting his long-timer hero for the first time -- motorcycle stunt legend, Evil Kneivel. Kneivel was contending that you had to be "born" to do the truly amazing in life, to push yourself beyond normal boundaries.
     It was obvious at least to me that Blaine had a different take, but ended up deferring to the aging and very ill legend. What Blaine seemed to want to say is that we're all potentially David Blaine's and Evil Kneivels -- given the right circumstances, courgage, motivation and willpower.

[FlGuy]

But no one ever speaks of Tensing Norgay who, I think, is the hero. Edmund : "I want to go to the top of Everest, because it's there"  Tensing: "OK, I got a couple of days free, I'll take you and show you the way"

[Algernon]

"I'll take you and show you the way."

Friends like that inspire me (like all those on this Forum who show each of us the way through treatment/up our own Everest).

[NYgirl]

I think David Blaine is an illusionist and as such...couldn't have succeeded because if he broke the record it would have to be legal and vetted and all of that...

I think he's a great master of pretend and a lot of that helps me with this disease - coming to work and pretending I'm ok, pretending I have "cancer", blah blah blah.  I've gotten to be such a great illusionist/actress on my own now that well...I might head for the soaps (as soon as I gain some weight, grow some hair, get rid of my wrinkles, bruises and scars) hahah

;)

[doglover28]

I am with you about thinking about going to meet a new doctor.  I meet mine a week from today.  I'm having a bad day today due to fear.  I made the mistake of reading too much on the internet today about HCV.  Sometimes I just need to leave it along. I'm just scared.

[52TELE]

OMG , I hate those days. Fear is a terrible thing to have to deal with , especially when our ability to reason out real fear from irrational fear is compromised by the tx. The thing that scares me , is how unpredictable the treatment is . Day in Day out. I never know how I'm going to feel , I never know if I'm going to wake up with a huge rash on my forhead , I cant really plan anything because I dont know what tomorrow brings.Not that we ever do , but in life we are offered slightly better odds about the near future at least.

Hang in there , I'm scared too.
Only good can come from a doctor visit.

[doglover28]

That's part of my fear...tx..I haven't even had the biopsy yet. From all the research that I've been doing, I better get on an AD if I do get to do tx.  If I freak this much naturally, there is no telling what I will be like during tx