Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality.

　　The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes.

　　The adjustment is never easy.

　　I was totally confused and afraid.

　　But I was lucky.

　　My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a potential to live, you might call it—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.

　　The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself.

　　That was basic.

　　If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life.

　　When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone.

　　That is part of it.

　　But I mean something bigger than that： an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate(错综复杂的)pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

　　It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this. ” I said. “Take it with you, ” he urged me,

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