Learn how to live from FDR

A was lazier than usual as I’ve been recovering from different medical tests. This day I spent the day on resting and watching PBS production, “FDR: A Presidency Revealed.” I recorded it some time ago but forgot to watch it. In my opinion there are days when that particular book, person, movie or TV show comes into our lives when it’s needed. Today, FDR was cure for me (well… not bad for a dead President.)
The word ‘changes’ are flying over and over in the current political situation. In opinion of many, it’s the answer for the future. It’s quite easy, right? Just change something, just like that. Let’s change the world, change the war, change our enemies and meanwhile change leadership. I can’t figure it out how naïve we can be, at times. Some of us, whose lives turned over by 180 degrees really could give some lessons about that entire changing thing. It’s easy to talk, well it seems to be the only job of politics. However that’s not the promises that change our life. I know you understand and know that true change is difficult and terrifying as well, it’s hard to get over it and hard to get accustomed to it.
What Franklin Delano Roosevelt achieved was really amazing, despite your personal political opinions about him or what you think about him as a President. It doesn’t matter if you are Republican or a Democrat, his life earned to be admired. He suffered from the polio disease and decided to live to become President of the USA. I know a lot of people heard about he was trying to hide his disability and that he was not able to walk without heavy braces. At that time he was thinking that he would look weak and people would be losing their confidence in his leadership. But think for a moment about your life and mine. He was struggling through each and every day. His duty was to lead the country in the time of war. He had five children. Of course, I know he was a charmer and maybe a spoiled son, however his physical strength and courage to get up every day and drag his body through such demanding times. It’s unbelievable how hard his life was, muscle strain, the fatigue, the long hours and the obstacles that have been put for his mind. He went through the depth depression in the early years when his polio was found. Such approach and such example of put effort may inspire you to reach the star, because it seems to be possible for everyone, right?
We don’t have any other option than to survive and come through this, but as we see there are a lot of examples to be followed. Begin with FDR. Some of his achievements in terms of his severe handicap were just remarkable. I really recommend you to  see a movie about him and his astonishing life, such as “Sunrise at Campobello, Eleanor and Franklin, Warm Springs” or the one that was mentioned before. There are numbers of great books about his life as well. Of course, he wasn’t perfect, but no one is. He was walking through his life with a bag of boulders on his back, and he had never felt. There’s a lesson for us, that we’re not alone in this. I hope you will learn how to find and gain some strength from other people that you see every day.

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