I Have Somone Who Inspired Me

This young woman now hates my guts, because my mental disorder pisses her off.Rachell...you're so vain.

Today... was a turning point.

It was nothing special. It was a rather ordinary moment, subtle, and fleeting. For the first time since I've met her, the beginning of this semester, I was able to meet her gaze from a close distance and...

Not just someone there are many here at EP who inspire me day to day.
I love all the inspiration that comes my way.......

I never used to much effort into school, studying, tests or anything academic for that matter. Geography work seemed useless and I complained how my future job wasn't going to be a geographer. And I laughed and chatted in all my lessons...

Note: This story was published in our local newspaper 6 years ago. Mom fought a hard battle but did not survive. Even though she is no longer with us , I feel her near.
 
My family has breast cancer.
No, I'm not kidding. For the...

Life for me started off on the wrong foot. I was bullied as a kid along with having a hard time with my family situation. In grade 7 i became anorexic for 6 months and lost alot of weight. I didn't care because it made me fel good to...

There are numerous people who inspire me. Almost everyone I am close to has and does inspire me. It makes sense. I wouldn't be drawn to these people or feel so close to them if I found nothing about them inspiring or admirable...

Saw this in a newspaper, really like the attitude:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1368763/Fibrodysplasia-Ossificans-Progressiva--Woman-rushes-aisle-rare-disease-turns-statue.html A young woman asked her boyfriend to marry...

What a precious soul.

My grandfather married my grandmother when my father was in high school. My father's biological father died around the time of his birth from scarlet fever. My daughter just got over that very same disease with the help of the...

There are characters in our lives that truly inspire us to reach for great things. Things that we didn't think we were capable of, things that we know we can get over because someone else had a more difficult time.I have those Heroes in...

This Christian man has several books, I read "Crazy Love" more than once. I highly recommend it. It was an eye opener.

My Dad and its funny how this came to be.

This summer (2012) I had a talk with him because we didn't really see each other in my high school years.

What surprised me was how much he changed. He had a goal and he was on the road to...

At 19, I worked in a doctors office as a medical assistant.  I was shy, awkward, and didn't have much faith in myself.  I was uncertian about the future or my place in it. 
I met a man there.  A physician, and...

I manage a group home for adults with severe mental illness. You can see where this is going, I'm sure. Every day I watch my clients who have suffered so much, who have been outcasts of society, rejected by loved ones, at times...

I've just read her autobiography, and I am astonished. How amazing is it, a person that couldn't see and listen, became a lecturer, an author, an activist, an role model to so many people, including me. This is what the power of will...

Should I say that any one particular person or event has inspired me? It would be far from the truth as in this life, there is much more in wonder than just one. Today I will speak of only the people I've met here on this site.
One the...