Heather Lanier :"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves (transcript)
Summary
What’s happening to us is not simple but not easy, thus it can't be shown by saying that it's good, it's bad and even it's lucky.
When bad things occurred to us, we want to think that next, good things happen. It might make us strong. However, after that, if a good thing happened, it puts us in an unthinkable condition.
It means that reality is much more fluid and by labeling or judging a situation, it makes our ability close down to truly see the situation.
The speaker has a kid who was diagnosed with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. Even doctors and therapists said that it's bad though it's not her daughter's life. It's beautiful, complicated, and hard but it's joyful. The human experience has a lot of expressions that all people have. There is no normal there and it's important to help a kid be as independent as possible.
It's important to fulfill your own potential, thus "Good" and "bad" are incomplete words that you tell yourselves.
Words in this story
attentive /adj/paying close attention to something.
incomplete /adj/ not having all the necessary or appropriate parts. defective
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