Week 8 Open Post

I came across something interesting this week for my free post. I found
an article that was written by Gabrielle Giffords called "The Lessons of Physical Therapy". Everyone knows the story of how she was shot in the head and was fighting for her life for a long time. Now she is dicussing how the lessons of physical therapy can be applied into different areas of her life that she once had.

She wrote an article about how her and her husband are trying to prevent gun violence and they've started and organization called Americans for Responsible Solutions. She talks about how the fight for trying to her project successful is difficult much like her physical therapy that she has been going through for the past three years.

The main point of the article wasn't even about physical therapy really, but what I found interesting was the connection that Gabrielle Giffords made. She connects two totally different worlds: medical and political. When you think about politics you don't think about physical therapy and vice versa. When you start thinking about it, the two are so similiar in the sense of how Giffords is tieing them together. They are both long, exhausting, difficult, some things will come easy, and other things will set you back to where you began.

From this article, I learned that when you take a step back and look at things in a larger perspective you can make connections between things that you didn't think you could and you can use these things to your advantage. Gabrielle Giffords used the lessons she learned in physical therapy and applied them to her work like in politics. This could be applicable to more than just politics and physical therapy and it's what makes good thinkers great thinkers. I think that it opens up ones mind and thought process to a whole different level and it gives that person the opportunity to think and do great things that they didn't think they could do before.

Gabrielle Giffords article is a great article and I would recommend for anyone to read it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/opinion/gabrielle-giffordss-call-for-persistence-on-gun-reform.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2Fphysical%2Btherapy%2F&_r=0





CITATIONS

APP/Getty Images. "Former U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords has moved back to her native Arizona, where she was shot in January 2011." Photograph. Cable News Network, 13 Aug 2012. Web. 13 Mar 2014.

Giffords, Gabrielle. "The Lessons of Physical Therapy." The Opinion Pages. The New York Times Co., 7 Jan 2014. Web. 13 Mar 2014.