I have referred to it as a gift--something for which others with this affliction have taken me to task. I was only speaking from my own experience, of course, but I stand partially corrected: if it is a gift, it's the gift that just keeps on taking. Coping with relentless assault and the accumulating damage is not easy. Nobody would ever choose to have this visited upon them. Still, this unexpected crisis forced a fundamental life decision: adopt a siege mentality--or embark upon a journey. Whatever it was--courage? acceptance? wisdom?--that finally allowed me to go down the second road (after spending a few disastrous years on the first) was unquestionably a gift--and absent this neurophysiological catastrophe, I would never have opened it, or been so profoundly enriched. That's why I consider myself a lucky man. . Michael J. Fox
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  1. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
  2. What other people think of me is not my business.
  3. Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.
  4. When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
  5. The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky....I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.
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