No one ever thought a person
like me could walk, let alone run. That's why everyone was like, well,
even if this works and even if running is actually possible, you
probably never stand a chance. Honestly, we don't really
know what happened exactly. I was waiting for the train to arrive and ended up on the train tracks
and got struck by a train. I was missing one on my legs
and the other one severely damaged. When I received my
first pair of prosthetic legs, I was almost pushed in the direction
of replacing what I had lost. I actually soon realised that
nothing was ever going to replace my human legs. When I then got introduced
into the whole sporting world and put on the blades, which
they look nothing like human legs, I realised that maybe it is actually
not about replacing something that I have lost, but actually
stepping into all that I can be. Our stories aren’t written by
what had happened to us, but really by the choices we make and every day, the way we show up.