 Hello, beautiful internet friends. I don't know why I felt the need to respond to this particular Comment. I'm not actually responding to it. I just wanted to kind of talk about this in general I got a comment yesterday I think and this was on my like goodbye to my foot video the one that went big large to a lot of people it went To a lot of people the comment said something to the extent of way to capitalize on your disability as in like making videos About this making a channel about this and I didn't take offense at it But it did stick in my head capitalizing on my disability sharing my story is capitalizing on a disability What does it actually mean to capitalize on something? What does it actually mean? Miriam-webster.com to gain by turning something to advantage. I like that I actually really do I have gotten a variety of comments Basically saying that same thing a lot of them have told me like to stop doing what I'm doing basically like to shut up about losing my leg and to stop Capitalizing on this when I started recording this video. I thought I might say something to be effective I'm not trying to like capitalize on anything, but after reading that definition. Yes I absolutely am if we are going by the definition of to gain by turning something to advantage That is a hundred percent what I am trying to do I made this decision based on 14 years of living in pain and I'm now living without a leg And I don't feel like it's a stretch to call it an unfortunate situation because it is and I am a hundred percent Trying to turn it to some kind of advantage I'm trying to convert a situation that is not super awesome into something that is awesome I am not entirely sure how to do that. I'm in the process of figuring that out I'm in the process of trying to take my circumstances and use them to absolutely the Most advantages that they can be used for to become the best that it can be I think that's all anyone can try to do right like we take whatever life has handed us Whatever circumstances handed us whether that's good or real crappy and try to do our best with it So, yeah, I am trying to capitalize on my disability. I am trying to capitalize on my handicap Whoever wrote that to the many people who have written that and the many people who have told me to shut up about it I'm not going to this sounds like such an empowerment video and I hate those usually Sorry about that Cambridge dictionary to use something to your own advantage. Yes a hundred percent I realize that it sounds terrible to say why would any of us not capitalize on our Unfortunate situations, but I really don't believe it's terrible by the definition of the word I think we should all capitalize upon everything We've been given like the good and the bad and use it to build the best life that we can make things really clear I'm not ever talking about capitalizing on someone or like capitalizing upon anything sleazy But I'm talking about whatever life has handed you Take every piece of good out of it like every advantage that you can gain from it find that That is literally what I am trying to do and you are literally seeing the process of that The good and the bad like the moments when I am falling apart because I can't figure it out because I feel like I'm losing hope And moments when I like seed the story coming together I'm in the middle of that And so yeah, I'm going to keep capitalizing on my disability if what you mean by that And only if what you mean by that is taking a situation a circumstance that I am not super happy with Which is having to lose my leg to live a better life and taking every possible positive advantage out of that I can yes I will continue to capitalize on that because I am looking to be the best version of myself And live the best version of life that I can think that there is not a darn thing wrong with taking Whatever life has thrown at us and turning it into something good I cannot dictate what circumstances are given to us, but we can choose what we do with them and we can Decide that we're going to make that something positive no matter how crappy it is to begin with All right guys, well, I am going to stop ranting and sincerely hope that some of that made sense Thank you for listening and whoever wrote that comment Thank you for writing that and provoking me to think about something And yeah, I hope that we can all capitalize on the crappy stuff in our life and in a positive way if that makes sense Moving on. I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I'll talk to you in my next video Bye guys