Taking people for granted

Date 3 July 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
As a society, we take people and the things people do for granted. We’re not always appreciative for the time and effort people put in, or for the things we have. We also underestimate the value of the people around us. We expect without giving recognition or thanks for other…
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Being protected

Date 1 July 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
When we find out we have something, but have never known I believe we are sometimes protected. We don’t worry about it or think about it. Life carries on. Ignorance is bliss as they say. It’s only when we come to understand what we have been dealing with for all…
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Other people's ignorance

Date 29 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
There are those who genuinely want to help, those who want to help but don’t know how to help and those who don’t want to know what it is we’re dealing with and therefore won’t go out of their way to help. On our part, it’s the not knowing, living…
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Our lessons

Date 28 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
If you’re lucky enough to have supportive parents, you will learn many lessons from them, but sometimes the lessons we may take from them is how not to do things. My fate was sealed the moment I was born, but it would go on to take me many years to…
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Making a choice

Date 26 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Although I was emotionally stuck as a child, I made a conscious effort to make sure I wasn’t also set in my ways too. I’ve heard it said that the older we are the more likely we are to be and remain set in our ways, but I believe we…
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Negative to positive

Date 24 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Whilst we have life, we can choose to perceive things differently. Negative to positive we change our perceptions. We can choose to focus our perceptions on the positive. It’s our lives, we get to choose. We can look at a situation and see the good, or we can look at…
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Energy & recovery

Date 21 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It's a fact that someone with cerebral palsy uses 3 to 5 times more energy to do the same things as someone without cerebral palsy, so it stands to reason that because I have cerebral palsy, I will tire more quickly when I over exert myself. It also stands to…
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Measured decisions

Date 20 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Measured decisions usually come on the back of measured thoughts. A measured decision is a decision that’s made after considerable thought. Decisions that are measured, (weighing up the pros and cons) are the best way to make decisions. When we make quick decisions without thinking about things, we make hasty…
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Leaving a life behind

Date 18 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
When we’re brought up to live, and think a certain way, life isn’t easy. It’s a life with little emotion. With no freedom to make our own choices on life or through our experiences. There may also be times when we’re not sure how to get through, we just know…
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Connecting emotionally

Date 17 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Emotional connections are what bonds families, friends and couples. You don’t have to be part of a couple for an emotional connection to be formed, but without an emotional connection, there will be very little holding the relationship up. An emotional connection is a bond, it’s a link that ties…
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CP cannot be overcome

Date 15 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
Cerebral Palsy is what I was born with and is what I deal with, but it frustrates me immensely when I read about people who have Cerebral Palsy and think it’s something they will overcome. It’s such false representation of what Cerebral Palsy is. Cerebral Palsy isn’t something you overcome.…
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Looking back at life

Date 12 June 2015
Author Ilana Estelle
It’s only when children become independent and begin to live their own lives that we as parents look back at our own life and either look back at those memories fondly, or come to realise how bad our life has really been. I have never chosen to live my life…
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