Being proud and feeling grateful

I’m constantly forced to feel proud because people are always telling me I am such a good parent. They do it without me even asking I don’t even have to ask I know. On top of that I enjoy sitting back and observing my children even sometimes for just 15 or 20 minutes just being completely astonished at how far they’ve come and how grown up they are. Also, I’m 35 years old and I had a 3-hour conversation with a 63 year old woman the other day all about how she cannot believe how smart I am. Telling me it’s not very often that she comes across people smarter than her and stuff like that. Then she proceeded to tell me that she just cannot believe that everyday she works with me she gets to learn that I know one more other thing that she didn’t know I knew the day before and she just cannot believe all of the smart factual things that are up inside my brain. And she said what makes it even crazier is that I’m half her age.

I broke my neck when I was 23 years old. That means between 18 years old and 23 years old I only got to be an adult for 5 years with the ability to walk. June 28th 2024 was 11 years since I broke my neck. I’ve been in a wheelchair almost exactly half as long as I was on two feet. I feel so grateful so thankful and so blessed, because I have been able to do so many things I would have never had even time to do because I probably would have been working my butt off to provide for my children and family. The car accident that broke my neck that the rest of my family thankfully walked away from that’s really been more of a blessing than anything. I really really really want to become a motivational speaker and if anybody has any tips and tricks on how I could get started I really want to get to it. I have lots of really good advice for all different walks of life. I’ve lived a pretty crazy life some of the stories I could tell are just shocking. On top of that to have gone through all of it and still come out on top. Raising good children, not being depressed, to never have tried or wanted to commit suicide. Literally living the best life I can live in doing it on my own. I think I could help a lot of people. So if you have any tips ideas tricks thoughts or how I could get started please let me know. And remember that if donkeydidit… You can too!