On New Year’s Day I came home from dinner in Santa Monica, got into bed early, and was disappointed by yet again another Lakers loss.

With a minute to go in the game, I hit  the DVR button on my remote and started scrolling down, noticing that there was  a recorded episode of 60 minutes. I hit play and all of a sudden I saw a story that really hit me in the heart. I saw that doctors came up with a robotic arm that can help the disabled. I watched the story and was flooded with emotion about the possibilities for my life.

The story went on to show a woman who had virtually no movement below the neck control an arm with nothing more than her thoughts. At the end of the story, a doctor working on this project said the magic words. “This will help cerebral palsy.”

Wow.

I was never the person who constantly longed for a cure or even to get better. My focus has been always to work within the confines of my disability to make my life incredible, but seeing that story made me think of how much better my life would be if I had just one robotic arm. I could text, get my own water, I could eat a snack.

Wow.

Although I watched that story multiple times, I have to be careful not to get caught up in the idea of what could be down the road. Instead, I use it as motivation to make my own reality a little bit better.