Lightning Crashes

'Lightning Crashes' is a great song by the band Live.

It's an old song, but the message is timeless. In one review, https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/live-lightning-crashes-story-behind-song/, they tell the inspirational message behind the song. In life, things happen that are beyond my control. Other people decisions, actions, natural events. The biggest, in my life, was my accident.

Being hit by a car and suffering permanent brain damage was devastating for me. But I have taken this and become stronger. It's given me an opportunity to see life from a different perspective. I have chosen to make opportunity from tragedy. It was a conscious decision I made- highlighted by the fact that I was so young and my brain was still developing.

Speaking of making opportunity from tragedy I met a young woman called Deborah, who also has a website, www.tragicopportunities.com. She has taken what's happened to her and found a silver lining. She is an inspiration- helping people to transform their lives both professionally and personally.

I think that she is inspirational because she is willing to go on a public stage and tell others what she has done, and how others can do it too. The hardest step, and the one which requires courage, is the first one

During the infamous lockdowns of 2020, I had the idea of turning the acronym of ABI (Acquired Brain Injury) into a more palatable Always Be Improving. I think it succinctly demonstrates what I’m trying to do- as opposed to lamenting on what has happened to me. I think that, in only a few words, it encapsulates what I’ve been doing since I woke up from a coma when I was 14.

I took a mandatory 'holiday' and all I could do was stay in, or around, my home. It wasn't so bad, as I live in a nice place, but it left me with little to do. I turned to watching self-improvement clips on YouTube. It was a couple of years before I reviewed what I'd been doing and saw that the net result was that I was trying to improve myself as a person.

Thus Always Be Improving was born.