@Maleka_Moroane This is the face of triumph, with just the right amount of spice. On some, "Ha! Y'all thought you were getting rid of me, kanti you buried a seed! Now watch me grow!!!"
Kathleen Thomas, who was pulled over by a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy and was issued a citation in February for allegedly using a phone with a right hand she doesn't have, now tells CBS News' Cristian Benavides that she doesn't believe that the officer wanted to be "mean" but hopes the viral encounter can spark a broader conversation about limb difference and how interactions with people who look different can have unintended emotional impacts.
“For every one of me there’s several others that that could destroy their entire day.”
That clip from Stephen Colbert's interview of Dua Lipa took me back to the very first time I saw it while watching the show a few years back. It reminded me of a thought that has stayed me since then...that sadness can become dangerous when fear enters it, and that more often than not, the moments I laugh through my pain are not moments of denial, but moments of survival.
Adding a dash of humour to my life's challenges has helped me to accept that healing is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is simply waking up one more day without allowing sadness to convince me to stop being kind.