I’ve heard of this guy and saw a clip before. He’s really good!

*rewatches video*

Then again…

However, when your goal is overcoming a physical limitation? I guess it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If it’s to become the first blind pro football player, then the only two factors that might yield given effort and time and only with slight probability are a change in technology or in the game. But if it’s just to PLAY? Then clearly you can find people and accomplish it.

But I think what I’m trying to get at is that the contestants aren’t saying I want to make music and I’ll never give up until I can create music. That would allow them to abandon singing and work towards an instrument or a band or something. They are saying I can overcome my voice.

I think it’s better to know now than to find out later, when you’ve wasted even more time and more effort. This same theory can be applied across other aspects of life, including relationships, career choices, etc.

I love that story and maybe those are the stories we that back up our “don’t stop/die trying” propaganda. Speaking of your one eyed miget NBA player, I saw a feature on ESPN about a blind high school football player….

yeah he sometimes tackled his own team member.

I don’t know. Lucky for me, I have very attainable simple dreams so far.

I guess i keep thinking about .. thomas edison, ben franklin, and MLK, and Gandhi, and Mandela.
What would happen if they happen to call it quits? I’m sure they either felt insane or were deemed insane a few times.

I guess the journey itself as people say can be life altering in itself.

Who would have thought I’d get this far out in my thinking by sympathizing with American Idol rejects.

Then again, I think of the story of Junot Diaz, working on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: he wrote the first seventy-five pages of the novel, then spent seven years laboring just to continue it. He got to the point of almost giving up, but he couldn’t let himself. Three years later: Pulitzer.

Maybe you have a right to keep bashing your head against the same wall as long as you have at least a little impartial encouragement? Like Diaz had an MFA and a critically successful collection of short stories to his credit, so he must have known he wasn’t barking up entirely the wrong tree.