Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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And what I meant by I'm better was that I felt bright again.
I felt bright.
I felt like whatever life was going to give me at that point in time, I had brightness.
I was still alive.
I did not die that day.
And when, you know, so many people have said, how, what motivated you to get better?
Or how can you, could you have been so happy?
And it was like, I did not die that day.
And
That meant no matter how disabled I was, I could not walk, talk, read, write, recall any of my life.
I became an infant in a woman's body at the age of 37.
I completely fell off the Harvard ladder and none of that mattered.
All that mattered
Because I was alive.
And what that meant was I had the potential to grow and heal and become whatever I would become.
And it didn't matter.
And it still doesn't matter.
What matters is I'm alive.
It's the gift of life.
And that's, for me, the wonder of what we are as living beings.