Courage of Ordinary People

Every year, six ordinary people are awarded the Courage to Comeback Award.  The 2013 recipients are:

• Youth category is Lourenco:  Courage defined smiling teen
• Medical category is Cindy:  Rare congenital condition
• Addiction’s recipient is Thea:  Battle to get clean
• Mental Health category is Andy:  Helping change perception
• Physical Rehabilitation category is James: Physically need define person
• Social Adversity category is Curtis:  Overcame drug ravaged life

 Their experiences and lives inspire me to face my own battle.  If they can do it, so can I.  

Sam Sullivan 2010 Olympics

What Mayor Sullivan said in this live stream, echoes what I thought of in moments of despair.  There is miracle in everyday life and power in listening to other’s stories.  Even the dull and ignorant have stories to tell.  

We’ve come to share our stories of joy and sadness, health and illness, humour and rant; and in doing so we’ve come closer to one another even though we are all strangers to one another. 

“By seeing the very best of others: courage, faith, hope, endurance; we will see ourselves what we become.” 

Let us be supportive to one another.  

 

Related links from The Province newspaper:

• live stream
• Courage defined smiling teen
• Rare congenital condition
• Battle to get clean
• Helping change perception
• Physically need define person
• Overcame drug ravaged life