Thank you for taking this video journey of how I started my work and what I hope to achieve in this purpose to inspiring and saving lives.
Before Christopher Reeve passed away, he opened the door for bringing awareness to spinal cord injury. I wrote a song called I am the X , a song about accepting who I was and not laying in bed all day thinking I was going to just wake up and walk, feel become independent again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyxH6GN6yA4
I was at a point in my life where I felt there may be something I can do as well, so with good family and friends they helped me make a documentary called A City Called Heaven. A story on who I was before and after paralysis and how I live, love and achieve goals with people I love. After making that video I entered it in several film festivals and saw how so many people knew very little about paralysis so I wanted to do more I just didn't figure out what else can I do when there was already someone famous who was bringing attention. This video I think help me find my purpose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi9_rs-rKiU
After that and not long from finishing promoting the documentary Christopher passed away. A feeling of fear and worry about paralysis came over me, I never thought Christopher would go, I though the world of science would make him walk. That same day after the news went off I just laid in bed. Then something came into my soul and said write a song about him. My friends laughed at me, not in a cruel manor but a way sometimes we react when we don't understand. See it's like this, sometimes we complex our lives by always analyzing every thing we feel instead of letting our feelings guide us and the we sometimes walk around in confusion. I asked God to put my life in his hands so I should trust His lead, so although friends laughed I went on with completing the song. The message I got was sometimes praising someone besides yourself can build who you are bigger then you praising yourself. This is the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKrSi4OAyc0
I then went online to share with others and found a forum I never knew existed. Care Cure Communities was the forum I sent it to. I then got messages to sing the song at a rally in front of Capital Hill in washington, DC. I was in shock but even more when I got there. Still I didn't know my purpose but I knew I had God to thank for my part in this mission Christopher fought for. This is video from Rally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV7Pdd0OwKc
This was an update to Forever Superman to show what went on at the rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWI0fnBBVlg