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Can fly high without wings

Can fly high without wings

By orlando hanafeePublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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One day in 1983, a baby girl was born in a hospital in Tucson, Arizona. To the dismay of her parents, the baby girl was born without arms. Even informed doctors could not explain this strange phenomenon.

With the love of her parents, she grew up day by day and became a lovely little girl.

On that day, the girl standing on the balcony saw a group of children of her age opening their angelic arms, running happily in the sun to chase the dancing butterflies, the girl was very sad to cry to her mother about the injustice of fate, even refused to give her arms to embrace the world.

Her mother calmly comforted her: "My child, God is indeed a little biased, but God is to send you more dreams, let you use actions to tell people -- even without wings, you can also fly high, just like without long ten fingers, you can also play a beautiful piano, can write a beautiful article......"

"Can I do that?" The girl lifted her head.

"As long as you work hard, you can do it, as long as your dream has not broken wings, you will be able to fly very high." The mother's gentle eyes were full of unquestionable firmness.

The girl believed the words of the loving mother, eyes over and over again touching their pair of seemingly ordinary feet, the heart secretly told himself: I have a pair of extraordinary feet, not only used to run, or used to fly.

After that, with the guidance and help of her parents, the girl began to develop flexibility, flexibility, and strength in her feet in a planned way. With her dream, she overcame unimaginable difficulties and experienced countless failures. Finally, to people's surprise, she developed a pair of unusually free and flexible feet. She could not only eat and dress with her feet, but also easily realize self-care in life, and learned to play the piano, write and operate the computer with her feet. She has done almost everything a human being can do with her feet.

The girl began to proudly display her extraordinary "foot skill" in front of people. At first, the strange eyes she met were gradually filled with admiration. At the age of 14, the girl completely threw away a pair of decorative prosthetics, a sunny face wearing a sleeveless top, into the school, shopping malls, streets... As if they do not lack anything at all, in addition to ordinary people like a pair of arms.

The girl continues to create miracles in her footsteps, she studies hard, her homework is always meticulous, from primary school to middle school, her academic performance is always among the best, and teachers and students very admire her perseverance and self-improvement. The family embraced them when she received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Arizona. Her father proudly encouraged her, "Son, you can do better!"

"Yes, I can do better!" The girl smiled confidently.

To enhance the strength of leg muscles, maintain the flexibility of legs and toughness, the girl not only insists on regular running, still become the mermaid of a free shuttle in the swimming pool of blue waves rippling, still became a little famous master in a taekwondo hall... A doctor pointed to her X-ray and sighed in surprise: After exercise, her feet have become extremely agile, and her toe joints are as flexible as her finger joints."

With her dreams still alive, she went to driving school. In the surprised attention of the coach, she soon mastered the driving skills, passed the nearly harsh exams, successfully got the driver's license, and began to use both feet to skillfully drive the wind and go......

Then it was time for the girl to realize her long-cherished dream of flying a plane and hugging the sky.

Parrish Trawick, the famous instructor who had trained many pilots, knew when he saw the girl who had driven in to sign up that she would take to the skies, like an eagle, not only because of her skill in driving, but also because of the ease, poise, and determination in her eyes.

Sure enough, when the girl learned to pilot the plane, no less than those able-bodied pilots, she operated the control board with one foot, the other foot operated the pilot lever, gliding, pulling up, airborne... She is calm and composed, and every movement is very accurate and in place, which is better than many students. Coach Parrish Trawick later recalled: "She proved to be an excellent pilot and she was very calm and steady in the cockpit. Once you've been with her for 20 minutes, you'll forget that she doesn't have arms. She shows people that you can overcome all limitations. She's just incredible."

At the age of 25, she got her private driver's license for a light sport aircraft, setting an aviation precedent by becoming the first legal pilot in the United States to fly a plane using only two feet. The girl's name was Jessica Cox.

Today, Jessica Cox is a household hero in the United States. Her moving story of living and struggling on her feet has given the world great shock and inspiration.

In hundreds of speeches across the United States, Jessica Cox has said the most: "You can fly as high as you dream."

Yes, even if you were born without wings, you can still fly high, because the dream in your heart that will never fall will give you wings that will fly free, will give you infinite power, and will help you create unimaginable miracles.

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