The opening ceremony of the Qatar World Cup, has everyone watched it?
The grand ceremony that the oil kingdom threw out with money seemed to smell of gold even in the air.
The mascot La'eeb, which is very characteristic of the Middle East, no one disputes that this is the cutest Ah Piao in the world, right?
Of course, in the flashing shots, it is also an indispensable link to find Ruyi Langjun.
But compared to the beautiful performance, what impressed Little IN the most was the conversation between the 85-year-old Morgan Freeman and a boy who was only half-amputated.
Morgan Freeman, an old acquaintance of the movie "The Shawshank Redemption," has been wearing rehabilitation gloves since he suffered a nerve damage to his left hand in a car accident, even at the opening ceremony.
The boy with only one upper body, Ghanim Al Muftah, is one of the official ambassadors of this World Cup.
One is a dying elder, the other is a congenital disabled teenager, who looks a little out of place in the carnival celebration full of passion and vitality.
If we don't see them in the same frame, we all seem to acquiesce that sports belong only to normal people, ignoring that minorities also enjoy sports.
However, it is not surprising that Morgan Freeman, an international superstar, appeared at the opening ceremony, so what qualifies Ghanim, who is only 20 years old, to be elected World Cup ambassador?
Ghanim's life was miserable, but he didn't need anyone's sympathy and pity.
As soon as he was born, he suffered from an extremely rare disease - tail degenerative syndrome, which lost parts of his body below the lumbar spine.
The doctor asserted that no matter how much money he had to keep him alive, he would only survive until he was 15 years old at most.
However, my life was at my own point and Ghanim incredibly performed medical miracles.
He has no lower body, but he tries his best to live better than a person with sound limbs.
From the moment he was born, he was gambling with heaven and challenging all the impossible.
Ghanim can swim, even scuba diving, and when underwater, he is a fish that comes and goes.
This makes many people who pass the exam in the compulsory course of college swimming embarrassed by walking over and getting a passing score.
More than swimming, Ghanim has worked on almost every sport, especially extreme sports.
He especially loves to toss his limited life, or love to die.
He likes to play football, playing and shooting with his chest and hands.
This exercise, which required a pair of strong legs, was a challenge that he had to take on without resignation.
He climbed extremely well and once climbed Jebel Shams, the highest peak in the entire Gulf region, but his goal was to conquer Mount Everest.
If there is a will, things can be done, and in time, he may really stand on the top of the 8848-meter snowy mountain.
He skateboards at the level of a professional player, and stepping on a skateboard is like an off-string arrow.
In addition to wheelchairs, skateboarding has been used by him as another means of transportation.
But learning so many athletic skills, Ghanim doesn't want to set an inspirational benchmark, he doesn't want people to see him and only think that he has a hard life.
In this world, there are so many people who suffer their lives that suffering cannot be compared with each other.
He swims, climbs, kicks and skateboards, just to prove that doing whatever he likes is nothing more than a process, and some people pay a greater price.
In addition to showing his athletic side, Ghanim is also happy to share fragments of his daily life.
As a disabled person, he has a driver's license and a special car, and he drives a car just like ordinary people.
He usually loves to exercise, and has a professional personal trainer watching him practice his pectorals and biceps.
Go shopping at the supermarket and he can sit on the shopping cart in an upright manner.
If you don't want to walk when you go out, you can still ride on your brother's head with pampering and pride.
Ghanim knows that he is special, but he does not want to live what people imagine, and he tries his best to bridge the gap between him and ordinary people.
For twenty years, his grandmother had always felt sorry for this unfavored child, repeating the same question every time they met: "What about your legs?" ”
At this point, Ghanim would lift her pant leg and let her touch the soft flesh attached to her breast.
He did not dislike this slightly offensive question, and he preferred the straightforwardness and recklessness of treating him as a normal person than the so-called respectful, curious but secretly inquiring practice.
But no matter how hard Ghanim tried to live a normal life, he could not escape the torment of illness.
He needs to be treated irregularly, and his body is full of large and small tubes.
It is only when he lies in a hospital bed that he feels the fragility of life.
If he is not born into a wealthy family, if he leaves these high-tech machines, even if he is unwilling to succumb to fate, he must bow to reality.
Therefore, Ghanim knows that he is already lucky in misfortune, and because of this, he is even more eager to create personal value.
With the support of his family, he became active in disability charities, founded the wheelchair association and built a new sports center for 5,000 children in refugee camps in Lebanon.
He even started an ice cream company called Gharissa Ice Cream, which he plans to expand throughout the Arabian Gulf region.
Today, he is studying political science in the UK with the goal of becoming a diplomat.
Little IN doesn't know if Ghanim's ambitious dreams will eventually come true, but he never seems to look ahead, choosing to give up halfway for fear of failure.
It may be a deeper understanding of the shortness and preciousness of life, and he is more committed and dedicated to everything he does.
In the past, everyone always liked to praise people like Ghanim as inspirational idols, and encouraged themselves by pouring poisonous chicken soup such as "he worked so hard when he was so miserable, what reason do you have to lie flat".
But in fact, we are shocked and moved by the blooming vitality:
Everyone should live the best life in their limited life, whether healthy or disabled, and have the right to enjoy the beauty of this world.
There is no need to be worse than anyone, and there is no need to envy who is happier, life should be lived presumptuously.
As Ghanim said at the opening ceremony of the World Cup: "I want to convey hope, tolerance, peace and unity to humanity, where everyone can find beauty in their differences and everyone can live a wonderful life." ”
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