A story of adversity and overcoming

Now I want to talk about a story of inspiration to many people in our world, I want to talk about a person who fight against the human logic because he learnt how to play the guitar without his arm, his name is Tony Melendez. Our society tend to discriminate people with disabilities, because society thinks they cannot bring something good to the world. People with disabilities have to do extra work to obtain what they want, this is why I what to talk about Tony because he swims against all the prognostics and he managed something that many ‘normal’ people can do.

When his mother was pregnant the medicine in Nicaragua was terrible and the doctor gave his mother a pill that affect completely the development of the child in his stomach. He born without his arms and his family decided go to US searching the best to the child, his parents was musician and his father gave him a guitar, and he search the best way to play the guitar with his feet.

All his life he had to learn how use his feet in his daily life, in the high school he wrote with his feet. One question that maybe you have in your head now… Does he have children? Of course he has, but he adopted two children, one of them is Nicaraguan and the other one is Salvadoran.



I talk about this story because can be inspiring to many people, maybe we put us obstacles that doesn’t exist and people give up really easy. Think about what you have and try to definite your objectives, what you want to achieve. All people have the same possibilities, but always win the people who focus in what they want. This kind of cases can chance life but if you never trust in what you are and what you have maybe you never going to look your objectives thrive.