Just imagine for a moment you were totally blind.
Unable to see anything.
It would provide you with a valid reason for not doing many things, right?
After all, if you can’t see, it is going to severely limit you.
I guess that is the way I’ve always looked at it…
…until a few weeks ago.
A Facebook group I am a member of were asking for a volunteer to be a VI (Visually Impaired) running guide.
When I saw this I was on holiday and had just finished a nice meal with a couple of glasses of wine.
I was therefore at that contented stage where I probably would have agreed to anything.
Consequently, I put my name forward and was quickly signed up to do the guiding.
The closer to the day it got, the more nervous I got.
I was (almost) literally going to be holding someone’s life in my hands
(OK a bit melodramatic I know, but it seemed that way at the time)
Fast forward to the day and it wasn’t just the cool breeze that was causing me to shiver like a crapping dog.
AND THEN.
Chris, the blind runner came striding over with the people who had given him a lift.
He met me with a beaming grin, was full of praise for what I was doing and told me there was nothing to worry about.
He was about to put full trust in me to get him around unscathed, and yet he was telling me not to worry!
In the briefing, he also let on that he had fallen on numerous occasions and so don’t worry if it happened with me.
NUMEROUS OCCASSIONS!
If I couldn’t see anything and had fallen over just ONCE, I’m pretty sure I would have thought ‘Sod this for a game of soldiers’ and taken up something a little easier.
As it was, Chris had more about him than me and was totally cool about the whole thing.
We both completed the run intact.
And as much as I was supposed to be the ‘volunteer’, I was the one who got SO much more from the experience.
Meeting Chris was truly inspirational.
Any excuses I had from now on about achieving anything had in effect just been blown out the water.
Chris had the best reason possible for not running.
But he WANTED to run.
He REALLY wanted to run.
And so he didn’t want the blindness to be an excuse.
He just worked out a way around it and got on with it.
Yes, he hit obstacles (figuratively and literally), but it didn’t stop him.
Now you will find him out running most weeks.
He has completed marathons and ultra-marathons in the UK and abroad.
As far as he is concerned his situation is not a biggie and it is just a minor challenge to get around, over or under.
Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of the fact that there is an answer to just about every problem that faces us.
Yes, it might take us longer.
Yes, it might mean us doing things differently.
But there is normally a way.
Just think about Chris (and all those like him) the next time you are using an excuse for not doing what you want to do.
I know I will 🙂
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