What is life...part 2

You come into this world as a baby, naked and vulnerable and grow to become a person who despite your location, upbringing, creed and colour give of your-self everything that you have to lead a normal life in a world that by today's standards is not normal.
You are but a small cog in a "wheel" that turns relentlessly onwards. You don't ask to be nominated for something that by all accounts is on the increase, to be shackled to a life that now seems daunting in the extreme.
But when the "wheel" hits a bump in that road of life you are thrown upwards and outwards to a future that at first glance is deprived of anything worth holding onto. At what point do you sit back and look at what is happening to you, to your body which seems intent on destroying itself, your life in general.
When do you take the upper hand and say, "No, this is not going to defeat me, this condition, disease, call it what you will". I shall make a stand (no pun intended) and show this world that there is a place where I will fit in, to be as independent as possible but at the same time to accept that there are people out there, old and young who in their own way will try to reverse or slow down this "wheel" that turns forever onwards.
You (I) are but one small cog but when you link up with other small cogs you become a whole. You have a future, a life to live regardless of how bad your condition is and with the help of many many people you will have and achieve a quality of life that is befitting to you.
What is life....It is the love and caring of those around you, of family and friends, of being treated as someone who in their own rights regardless of the condition of their body is a living, breathing human being. I have MND but it will not stop me from enjoying what I still have and to make the best out of a bad situation.