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Challenged...

I love to be challenged.. So I am ... Yes .. I agree that it is difficult to lead an "Ordinary" life with being challenged physically.. But it is a constraint only for an ordinary life not for some thing special.. Thought of listing few challenged persons whose achievements are phenomenal: American cyclist, Lance Armstrong , won the Tour de France cycle race seven times consecutively from 1999 to 2005 after suffering from cancer that damaged his brain and lungs. British pilot, Douglas Bader , established himself as a war hero and an ace flyer after losing both his legs in a plane crash. One of the world’s greatest music composers, Ludwig van Beethoven (known for his legendary composition “symphony”), composed music even after he became completely deaf in 1817. Sarah Bernhardt , a French actress, continued to act in movies after she lost a leg in 1914. Being blind did not prevent, Louis Braille , from inventing the Braille printing technique which uses raised dots to enable ...