I have an interest in how individuals with disabilities and in fact everyone who has a challenge can create a full and robust life for ourselves.

“Full and robust” is in the eye of the person who wants to better themselves. We should not compare ourselves to other people. The grass isn’t greener over there.

We do best watering and tending to the “flowers” in our own garden. It’s likely the others fronting a green front lawn when you walk inside their house it’s a hot mess where you can’t see it.

For once in my life I could not abide reading chirpy positivity like that on the hellonutritarian website. It appeared daunting that you must follow a strict meal-prepping diet every week without fail.

My contention is that anyone can have a full and robust life of their own design. This is predicated rightly so on not comparing our worth to what other people can have and do.

There are as may possibilities for what a full and robust life can be as there are people. Living a full and robust life can be as simple as enjoying going to Starbucks for a caramel macchiato and reading a magazine while you’re there.

You don’t have to do or be or have what other people do or be or have. This is the beauty of defining a full and robust life on your own terms of what constitutes this kind of life for yourself.

You shouldn’t think that because you have limits or challenges this infers your life cannot be full and robust. It’s OK that you and I might not be world travelers jet-setting to exotic locales. It’s fine that you and I might not achieve the kind of success billionaires or others find in life.

I’m an ordinary person who has always seen possibility where others only see pain. So maybe I can give my followers joy and hope too. I believe that harboring envy of others and wallowing in self-pity is not the way to live our lives. Regret serves to keep us from having the full and robust life that IS possible if we stop dwelling on what we can’t have.

I recommend buying and reading the book Lightly by Francine Jay. In it she writes what I’ll end here with:

“The goal is not to get more done but to have less to do. Fewer distractions and more focus lead to freer, more fulfilling days.”

So in the end you could say a full and robust life is one where we have the freedom to do the things that make us happiest. Resisting falling into “grind culture” habits can free our time to do what we love. Passport and megabucks optional.