[QUAD-L] my fate?

[Stacy Harim]

In my situation I feel like what happened to me happened for a reason. I'm definitely using my experience as a disabled person to guide me through the rest of my life to help others.  I wonder about why I was put in the chair but it seems to come together when I think about my past patterns in starting and education for a certain career and then quitting.  I originally was in school for elementary education special ed.   I also substituted school and did so in a school that was geared towards special needs children (physical and cognitive disabled).  .  I felt bad for the children and took it home with me everyday.  I had those children on my mind all the time. Since I couldn't separate work from my life, I decided to go another way still wanting to teach but not special needs.  I then decided that I did not want to teach at all and stopped going to school so I did not waste my Dad's money.  I instead ended up waiting tables in Ocean City and taking off a couple of months in the winter since it's a resort town where I live and where I worked closed.  Here I am 12 years later and in school again for a job to help disabled.  Kind of ironic that if I weren't in the chair I wouldn't be in school now let alone for something that I pretty much started doing.   Stacy