Day twenty-eight: Never

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to do this. Honestly, the last couple of weeks have been so incredibly crazy and insane, I just didn't have the time. It started to pile up and I started to *gasp* dread blogging. I don't like that. So I'm going to try to keep up with it from now on. Unfortunately, most of my catch up posts will be just random things, and not necessarily about my life. Sorry. I never promised I'd blog about my life every day. Basically, I think I'll just talk about some beautiful people, or events, or pictures, or anything I happen to find in the next few hours. :)

First off is someone that I've wanted to post about for a while, but haven't done it yet. This person is a true hero. She's the definition of determination and fearlessness. She experienced a horrible trauma in her life, and instead of letting it define her life, she overcame it, becoming an even better person in the process. Her name is Bethany Hamilton, and she is my hero.

On Halloween eight years ago, Bethany went out for a normal day of surfing, not knowing that that day would forever change her life. She was attacked by a 14-foot tiger shark and lost her arm. She was only thirteen. Less than a month later, just in time for Thanksgiving, she got right back in the water and started surfing again. She was determined to become a pro surfer, even with just one arm. In one of my favorite interviews, when asked if she thought she would ever surf again, she responded, "Think? I know." A year after the shark attack, she won her first surfing National Title. She's now a pro surfer, an inspiration, heck, she was a movie! I follow her on Twitter and Facebook, and she posted pictures of some kids who wanted to dress up as her for Halloween. Bethany has been my hero since I read her biography, oh... probably in middle school? She's an inspiration, and I hope she just keeps living her dream.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson