This is Ron with your Motivational Message:
When I first heard of the movie, “Real Steel,” I immediately thought of my 300lb wheelchair full of wires, steel, and lead and the wonderful experiences that I have when I’m at the airport (think: metal detectors!). Most of the time, the security personnel have little idea what to do with me. Even though I have a strap across my chest and arms, they will proceed to ask me if I can lean forward and move myself out of the chair. My response is always, “well, I can’t move from my neck down,” and then I sense their confusion. They’ll brief me: “Sir, I will have to search you using my hands. I will flip my hands over and use the backs when searching personal areas” (whatever THAT means—it’s still touching!) Aside from that, generally, the process is not too awful because I will talk to them and try to connect with them while they search around my chair of steel. However, sometimes hand lotion or road tar (for the wheels) will get us pulled aside and we’re greeted by a team of inspectors. That’s why I consider myself, at least in an airport, the man with “real steel.” This leads me to my short video, “What is Real Steel?”
httpv://www.youtube.com/user/rollonron#p/a/u/0/tl-XWCexixQ
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In our age of technology, sometimes we choose texting over verbal communication, machines over manpower, and pre-set programming over free will. God did not create us to live isolated from one another, dependent on technology; he gave us free will and the ability to connect emotionally and psychologically. The gifts that God has given us: a soul, free will, love, and humor, outshine all technology. We need to rely less on expensive innovations and more on the gifts that God has been so wonderful to bless us with.
To your inspiration,
Ron
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