Small Steps - against the odds

I have always been a big believer in small steps.
Most of us tend to look at problems in their complete complexity. it may well be true that the situations we find ourselves in are complex and difficult situations - and so it seems almost counter-intuitive that we can deal with their 'largeness' with small answers. The truth, in my experience, is that most solutions are comprised of a series of small steps - each, in and of itself, seemingly insignificant. Escape from side control - repairing a broken relationship - digging our way out of financial difficulty - or coming back from open heart surgery ...

The word on my son Ronin, was that he wouldn't survive the trip to hospital - and then that he wouldn't survive the open heart surgery - and even then, that he probably would't successfully come out of the coma he was in - and if, by some miracle he did, then we could likely expect some major brain damage ... so far, he has beaten te odds ... but there's still a long way to go, and that will be a journey of many small steps.

One ICU nurse told me today that he had never seen any recovery like it ... such a defiance of the 'likely'. Think about it though, just the fact that each of us is here at all,stands in defiance to all the odds. Each of our ancestors successfully survived long enough to procreate - that in itself, makes each of us, an absolute miracle! I think if more people deeply understood that their own very existence stood in such defiance of the odds - they would treasure and value their short time on this planet more in the measure it really deserves ...

JBW