When They Try To Make You Give Up | Scott Burrows Inspirational Video | Goalcast
my friend Edie was driving way too fast at the time we didn’t realize he may have had too much to drink Edie lost control the wheel of that car and he crashed into a mound of sand sending that car hurling into the air before tumbling back to earth when the first times I came to that’s when one of my doctors said this since Scott in case you don’t recall you in a bad car accident you broken your neck and have a very serious final cord injury that has left you paralyzed from your chest down diagnosed quadriplegic and was long thereafter I was being told that we can find this chair the rest of my life 30 days then others experienced laying there I started getting some movement back in both to my wrists and the back of my mind I started thinking to myself that no matter how difficult life would be going forward that everything would be okay when I first started pushing a wheelchair that’s when one of my doctors though pulled me over and he goes Scott look we know you’re getting some movement back in your arms not uncommon breathing now more than ever you need to understand the seriousness of your spinal cord injury and come to realize that the movement that you’re getting back in your arms is as good as it’s going to get I don’t know if that is exactly what he said but what I heard was he might as well go ahead right now and give up hope and give up hope and the idea you ever come out of this chair if the problem was I bought into his words my vision darkened the main matter is a little more difficult for my parents they were 2,000 miles away and I literally stopped taking their phone calls four days later dad got me on the phone and he demanded to know what was wrong so I made an executive decision to tell him and always said was this I was out there two weeks ago for your birthday your attitude was off the charts remember how he reached down put my arms under your arms and hoisted you in the upright position do you recall what that felt like of course I do you do me a favor well you go back and recapture that mindset and reona it again in the meantime don’t be upset with me I’m gonna have words with that doctor and then come the next morning when I woke up I could not believe my eyes standing at that doorway looking back at me it was my dad letting me know in a sense everything would be okay and if I learned anything from dad that no matter how difficult life is for you in that moment you can always change the way of thinking and that’s when I made the profound decision that was willing to fail but I was unwilling to quit while knowing that nothing worth achieving ever comes too easy but to succeed that takes grit but what is grit grit my friends is your passion to persevere grit is what keeps you off the sidelines and back in the game of life well there’s something I learned in my lives so many years ago and I know it to be the truth don’t ever let someone else’s beliefs paralyze you from achieving those things you believe in your mind that you just might be able to achieve [Applause] if you are looking to thrive to be the odds and achieve extraordinary results in your own lives don’t give up too soon you
