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" A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do. "
You
Heart
Love
" Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now. "
Far Away
Now
Beginning
" Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors. "
Year
Friends
Fun
" Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift. "
Others
Feelings
Gift
" God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live. "
Me
Better
God
" I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. "
Place
Sad
Me
" I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me. "
Gift
Go
God
" If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do. "
God
Peace
World
" I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?' "
Me
Sometimes
Think
" It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now. "
Better
Life
Beautiful
" I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently. "
Grow
Growing Old
Growing Up
" I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard. "
Work Hard
Angel
God
" I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.' "
Keep Going
Thank You
People
" I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. "
Peacemaker
Poet
Remembered
" I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. "
Through
Writing
World
" I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow. "
Looking
Friends And Family
Family
" I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think. "
Think
Feelings
Want
" Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. "
Memories
Future
Hope
" Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy. "
Legacy
You
Want
" My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy. "
Muscular
Disease
Very
" My life mission is to spread peace to the world. "
Peace
World
Life
" People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look. "
People
Look
Fighting
" People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying. "
Pain
King
Me
" Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. "
Angry
Beautiful
Caring
" Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day. "
Live
Gift
Day
" Remember to play after every storm. "
Remember
Storm
Every
" Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. "
Sad
Things Happen
Forever
" Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up. "
Life
Body
Me
" Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. "
Nature
Sunset
Rainbow
" The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager. "
I Am
Week
Way
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