Starting Again After a Brain Injury

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/opinion/sunday/brain-injury-and-building-a-new-life-afterwards.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1 This is one of the finest articles I have ever laid eyes upon. I applaud you, Jane Rosett, for you are a soldier who is fighting "The True Good Fight", the fight for one's survival. You are powerful, and I think you are a thing of beauty, not for working so hard to achieve what one would call a state of normality, but for finding the strength to disregard what people assume about you, and for treating yourself like a human-being. Your article is strongly directed to the pathos appeal. One of the main instances of this is how you refer to re-discovering chewing gum. It is such a simple thing, yet it hits as hard as a two trains in a head-on collision. It really made me stop and think about how much I know, but also how much about life that I don't know, if that makes sense. There is so much to learn, and so much to see before I die. I once read somewhere a phrase, so simple and happy, yet depressing all the same. It said, "All I have left to do is die". I wish those to be my final words, and I'm sure Jane Rosett will be able to say this phrase honestly when her time comes.