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, “and roll it around.” The words stuck in my head.“Roll it around!”By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
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