However small they might appear, they might seem big to you.

I saw a video yesterday where a woman was jumping (better than me but not as high as any other able- bodied person could jump). I discovered she has the same type of MS as me. Every day she sets herself a target of doing a number of jumps. I was impressed. Yesterday was also when I started to walk with the rollator again. It was hard and I quickly realised that was going to be my challenge: to walk a small distance every morning and increase it incrementally. After I had done three walks along the corridor that first day, I felt I deserved a prize. You see, whatever you do that challenges you, when you do it, you are a winner.

When was the last time someone said “well done” to you? When did you say it to somebody else? Something that seems like a nothing to you might mean everything to them. Don’t ever belittle something that another person sees as an achievement. You just can never tell what else is piled against them. It is all relative.

Isn’t it? I saw a man lifting his feet in a strange way earlier. What I should have thought was not ‘how strange’ but ‘what has happened that he had to walk like that?’ I realized then that you can never think having a disability gives you the right to criticise other people. It doesn’t give you some kind of sainthood that makes you exempt from criticizing anybody else.

I’m off to seek out my rollator. Giant achievements have to start somewhere.