[Applause]
hi
what are we capable of for you to
understand what I’m saying you need to
kind of understand me a bit so let me
introduce myself my name is Lisa Marie
I’m 43 I’m a second year law student I’m
a mother of four a grandmother of one a
wife co-owner of a garage and many many
other things in between and I’m here to
talk to you today about self-inflicted
blindness now what is that essentially
it’s just a choice it’s that simple
but it’s a devastating choice far too
often we fail to see what is really
important in life
because we’re far too wrapped up on the
unimportant stuff we’ve got ourselves
caught up in this thing of trivial stuff
instead of looking at what we should
really be seeing with failing to see
what’s important and that’s where it’s
self-inflicted so what is it
well like I said it it’s just a choice
it’s got nothing to do with DNA it’s
it’s not something we’re born with it’s
not the aftereffect of a virus it’s just
something that’s in all of us but it’s
something that we are choosing to do and
why why are we choosing to be blind to
the possibilities of life there’s no gun
to our head no one’s forcing us to do
this let me give you an example I’d like
you all to think of one truly
spectacular thing that’s happened to you
today something really really amazing
apart from coming here something
absolutely magical that’s happened to
you today
I’d like to Wade your a bit that you
can’t actually think of one spectacular
moment that’s happened to you today
that there might be some you know quite
right thing some bit better than normal
things but nothing truly spectacular
well every single one of you who
thought that you’re wrong you really are
wrong and you’re so wrong it is tragic
today like every other day that’s
happened to you so far you woke up and
now you really need to wake up because
guess what approximately a hundred and
fifty-one thousand people didn’t wake up
today that woke up yesterday
approximately six thousand three hundred
people die every hour 105 people die
every minute and I guarantee that the
majority of the hundred and fifty-one
thousand people had every intention of
waking up today tomorrow really is a
gift it’s not a given and we need to
start appreciating that we need to start
making every today matter you need to
appreciate life and stop choosing to be
blind to the possibilities of it I
cannot count the amount of times I’ve
heard people turn around and say to me
that they wish they’d done something
else that they they wish they’d been off
and done something that they hadn’t done
or that they’d gone to somewhere that
they hadn’t been to and it makes me so
angry I want to scream at them why why
didn’t you what stopped you why haven’t
you why aren’t you going there now
because the only thing that can ever
stop you is yourselves you might get
knocked down or knocked back in the
process but if you truly want to get
somewhere you will get there regardless
as long as you keep getting back up keep
taking tiny steps keep moving forward
you will get to where you want to be
everyone can you can achieve anything
and literally everything all you need is
what you already possess the ability to
open your eyes as a law student I’m
often told that my opinion doesn’t act
we matter but it’s not what I know it’s
how I know it as lawyers we are taught
that daily it’s it’s not about what I’ve
learned it’s where I learnt it from so
which case which part of legislation
where did I learn that point of law and
that really mirrors life for example it
doesn’t matter how many times I tell my
teenage son that something is going to
start growing in the crockery that he’s
hid under his bed doesn’t matter
until he witnesses the scientific
process yourself of some new form of
bacteria growing inside his favorite man
mug that he will actually believe me
so what qualifies me to stand here and
tell you that you need to start changing
your thought process you not need to
start opening your eyes and seeing let
me introduce myself to you again and
I’ll put in one thing that I failed to
mention the first time my name is Lisa
Marie I’m 43 years old I am a second
year law student I am a mother of four
and a grandmother of one and a wife and
a co-owner and I’m dying I have a rare
autoimmune disease called Bichette
syndrome and I have many secondary
diseases one of which fibromyalgia the
difference is I have two or I chose to
live I have never once considered myself
a victim I have always been a survivor
I’ve always chose to see the silver
lining in every situation I’ve lived
with this death sentence over my head
for over 20 years my disease is a
vasculitis which means anywhere that
blood is diseases and it will kill me
and it can kill me within hours but I
choose to see the possibility
of life I choose to keep going which is
what everybody else needs to start doing
I is my greatest weakness as my biggest
strength
there isn’t one second of any day or not
a second of any night where I’m not in
immense pain but guess what me and pain
we are really close friends now yeah we
get on so well in fact I welcome that
pain because that pain is what reminds
me to keep my eyes open that pain is
what challenges me every day to be
better to do more to keep going to keep
seeing if you choose to see the bad in
every negative situation that is all
you’re ever going to see but if you
decide to see the good in every dire
situation you really will start seeing
the good if you was to ask me today or
wave a magic wand and say that I could
go back and if I could go back I could
live my life again still meet my husband
still have my amazing children but live
without my disease my answer to you
would be no I wouldn’t want to because
my disease has given me something that
is so special so rare it’s give me the
ability to live my life with real
appreciation to live my life with my
eyes wide open to actually see the good
in every single day and appreciate every
single day but more importantly it’s
give me a gift to help me inspire my
children and that inspiration will grow
and it will inspire their children and
I’ll know that I have taught them to be
the best that they can be the best that
they ever can possibly be and that gift
that gift is absolutely priceless
and not something that I would ever wish
to give away thank you
you
hi
what are we capable of for you to
understand what I’m saying you need to
kind of understand me a bit so let me
introduce myself my name is Lisa Marie
I’m 43 I’m a second year law student I’m
a mother of four a grandmother of one a
wife co-owner of a garage and many many
other things in between and I’m here to
talk to you today about self-inflicted
blindness now what is that essentially
it’s just a choice it’s that simple
but it’s a devastating choice far too
often we fail to see what is really
important in life
because we’re far too wrapped up on the
unimportant stuff we’ve got ourselves
caught up in this thing of trivial stuff
instead of looking at what we should
really be seeing with failing to see
what’s important and that’s where it’s
self-inflicted so what is it
well like I said it it’s just a choice
it’s got nothing to do with DNA it’s
it’s not something we’re born with it’s
not the aftereffect of a virus it’s just
something that’s in all of us but it’s
something that we are choosing to do and
why why are we choosing to be blind to
the possibilities of life there’s no gun
to our head no one’s forcing us to do
this let me give you an example I’d like
you all to think of one truly
spectacular thing that’s happened to you
today something really really amazing
apart from coming here something
absolutely magical that’s happened to
you today
I’d like to Wade your a bit that you
can’t actually think of one spectacular
moment that’s happened to you today
that there might be some you know quite
right thing some bit better than normal
things but nothing truly spectacular
well every single one of you who
thought that you’re wrong you really are
wrong and you’re so wrong it is tragic
today like every other day that’s
happened to you so far you woke up and
now you really need to wake up because
guess what approximately a hundred and
fifty-one thousand people didn’t wake up
today that woke up yesterday
approximately six thousand three hundred
people die every hour 105 people die
every minute and I guarantee that the
majority of the hundred and fifty-one
thousand people had every intention of
waking up today tomorrow really is a
gift it’s not a given and we need to
start appreciating that we need to start
making every today matter you need to
appreciate life and stop choosing to be
blind to the possibilities of it I
cannot count the amount of times I’ve
heard people turn around and say to me
that they wish they’d done something
else that they they wish they’d been off
and done something that they hadn’t done
or that they’d gone to somewhere that
they hadn’t been to and it makes me so
angry I want to scream at them why why
didn’t you what stopped you why haven’t
you why aren’t you going there now
because the only thing that can ever
stop you is yourselves you might get
knocked down or knocked back in the
process but if you truly want to get
somewhere you will get there regardless
as long as you keep getting back up keep
taking tiny steps keep moving forward
you will get to where you want to be
everyone can you can achieve anything
and literally everything all you need is
what you already possess the ability to
open your eyes as a law student I’m
often told that my opinion doesn’t act
we matter but it’s not what I know it’s
how I know it as lawyers we are taught
that daily it’s it’s not about what I’ve
learned it’s where I learnt it from so
which case which part of legislation
where did I learn that point of law and
that really mirrors life for example it
doesn’t matter how many times I tell my
teenage son that something is going to
start growing in the crockery that he’s
hid under his bed doesn’t matter
until he witnesses the scientific
process yourself of some new form of
bacteria growing inside his favorite man
mug that he will actually believe me
so what qualifies me to stand here and
tell you that you need to start changing
your thought process you not need to
start opening your eyes and seeing let
me introduce myself to you again and
I’ll put in one thing that I failed to
mention the first time my name is Lisa
Marie I’m 43 years old I am a second
year law student I am a mother of four
and a grandmother of one and a wife and
a co-owner and I’m dying I have a rare
autoimmune disease called Bichette
syndrome and I have many secondary
diseases one of which fibromyalgia the
difference is I have two or I chose to
live I have never once considered myself
a victim I have always been a survivor
I’ve always chose to see the silver
lining in every situation I’ve lived
with this death sentence over my head
for over 20 years my disease is a
vasculitis which means anywhere that
blood is diseases and it will kill me
and it can kill me within hours but I
choose to see the possibility
of life I choose to keep going which is
what everybody else needs to start doing
I is my greatest weakness as my biggest
strength
there isn’t one second of any day or not
a second of any night where I’m not in
immense pain but guess what me and pain
we are really close friends now yeah we
get on so well in fact I welcome that
pain because that pain is what reminds
me to keep my eyes open that pain is
what challenges me every day to be
better to do more to keep going to keep
seeing if you choose to see the bad in
every negative situation that is all
you’re ever going to see but if you
decide to see the good in every dire
situation you really will start seeing
the good if you was to ask me today or
wave a magic wand and say that I could
go back and if I could go back I could
live my life again still meet my husband
still have my amazing children but live
without my disease my answer to you
would be no I wouldn’t want to because
my disease has given me something that
is so special so rare it’s give me the
ability to live my life with real
appreciation to live my life with my
eyes wide open to actually see the good
in every single day and appreciate every
single day but more importantly it’s
give me a gift to help me inspire my
children and that inspiration will grow
and it will inspire their children and
I’ll know that I have taught them to be
the best that they can be the best that
they ever can possibly be and that gift
that gift is absolutely priceless
and not something that I would ever wish
to give away thank you
you
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