‘Just do it’ for the sake of it

I want to give you an approach that helpts me to be positive and enjoy life, for this let me tell you a little anecdote:

A few years ago I was waiting for the train to go to work and coudn’t avoid to listen the conversation between a girl in a wheel chair and her male companion standing at her side. “If I win the lottery I would buy a house in front of the Caribbean sea and we drink tropical juices all day” said the guy. The handicaped girl reply with an unrelated but smashing statement, “if I had legs I would run behind that train and would not stop until I´m completely exhausted”. The guy standing beside her knew exactly what she was talking about –you could see it in his face-, but anyhow he asked“why” -I guess he wanted to help her aliviate the pain-. The handicapped girl reply looking at the now far away moving train “just because I could”.

I was moved. I’ve always believed that life is a miracle (from a probabilistic point of view, not religious), but the notion of doing it ‘simply because you can do it‘ didn’t really crossed my mind consiously until that day. Now is an argument that helps me out to try again, or to just enjoy the simplest things in life.

So what are you going to do today, just for the sake of being able to?

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