Sunday, July 4, 2010

Lena Maria and Us


Born in Sweden to parents that always giving her full of support Lena Maria was very special from the start. The compassion and abiding love but never pity from her parents, have made she grown and turned became the remarkable girl who is today Lena Maria Klingvall, a woman of indomitable spirit and unshakable faith.

Lena learned to use her one fully formed foot to do all manner of things, from basic self-care to complicated matter like playing keyboards and driving a car with unceasing faith in her parents. She has shown her independent and remarkable spirit from early on, Lena refused "special" status, preferring instead to learn how to accomplish things her own way. In her own words, "I prefer to rejoice in what I can do-not mourn what I can't." In that spirit, Lena has not only learned to play keyboards and drive a car, but also to conduct a choir, develop a successful professional singing career and compete in the Paralympics in Seoul, Korea.
In youth she never scared for trying various sports and artistic activities. She excelled at swimming, representing her country at the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul. That the same year she visited Japan for the first time. Many Japanese impressed of her, It's quite something to be successful at both the arts and sports, and particularly so if you have physical disabilities. Known simply as Lena Maria in Japan, where she enjoys a large following, In the past decade, she has visited Japan nearly every year and performed in 45 of the nation's 47 prefectures. It is said that she often sings in Sweden, too, but has not achieved the celebrity status she has in Japan.

It is important to quote here that Lena Maria's disability did not stop her from trying various activities, even something thatmost of people with no handicap could not ever done. There must be a lot of factors lay inside the successful of Lena Maria but something I learnt as wonderfull factors from her are support, try and continue. There is a lot of extraordinary wonderfull thing happened when parents` love and support exists one of them is Hee Ah Lee from Korea she borned handicapped and have Lobster Claw Syndrome but with all love and wonderfull struggle and support from her mother Woo Kap Sun, she success become one of the pianist well known not only in Korea but also able to held several successful concert around Asia. The next are about try and continue, well many people wish and dream but only a few of them that finally do something in order to try, in order to change what they dream and wish into reality. Well let`s said many people tried but then less than the few I said you before after facing obstacle and failure were able to continue their “try”. I think that`s several things what makes someone like Lena Maria become different through her great achievements today.

Last but not least, Be brave and never give up for something you trust as your great and best dream you have that will be a great contribution you will be able to give in the future. One of the greatest person in my life once said that “what`s makes you a winner is not when you are winning, it is when you are failing then you able to stand up over and over again until the highest of your achievements, one day you`ll figure this out and when you do, you will change the world".

3 comments:

  1. Siska,
    I agree that Lena Maria's life and achivements are inspirational. I think it is also important to look, as you do, not only at what Lena Maria herself did, but what the people around her did to provide an environment in which she could flourish. Her parents, maybe her teachers, and others must have been extraordinary people and supporters of her endeavors.

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  2. I do agree with you both even though I don't think that she is so much different from everyone else of us, and I do wonder how famous she would have been if she would have been born with arms and normal legs and I don't if she want to be famous for being the singer without arms or if she want to be famous for being a really good singer. I think that it is important to not treat a person differently just because they look different. And it is maybe not her art that is very impressive but instead her way of looking at her life. She has a big confidence which she us when she tries a lot of different thing that could be difficult to her. This confidence most come from somewhere, I think that confidence comes from been happy and having someone who love you and support you. This person could be a parent, brother, grandmother or anything just they support you and let you develop your own identity, an identity which you feel safe in and where you can have your own ideas and believe in your own ability.

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  3. I was given courage by the words you wrote last. Now I play field hockey at university and always face difficulties. I can stand up over and over, then, become a winner. So I' ve decided to try hard to win^^
    Also, I want to be pleased with what I can do as Lena Maria said. From now on I'll avoid mourning what I cannot do. I think I want to live positively like her.

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