Getting There...

by M.D. Birmingham

The fact that you have begun reading this means that you have come to a crossroads. You ultimately, only have one of two choices that you will make. One choice is to continue reading this book and it will (not can) enhance your perspective on life and “being” around others. The book “touches” several genres (inspirational, self-improvement, handicapped, health and fitness, social sciences, philosophy, family, mind, body, and soul) in a combined unique manner and accurately highlights each that is naturally intertwined in this autobiography and anyone's life. This book goes beyond age, gender, social, cultural boundaries, and even time to make it applicable to any human. This autobiography's events were typed and recorded vocally by me, the author, as I regained the physical capabilities. These are all true experiences by me, the author, that were encountered along my journey. The “story” illustrates the similarities of “two worlds” that some people think are completely different; one being “better” than the other. The experiences are presented in such a form to make it relative to any reader. This autobiography was written in the style and format that creatively gives the reader the truthful experience in order. Many people want to be at the top, but how many have and can give perspectives from both “top and bottom.” All emotions are met when reading this book and it is much more than a life story. It is “The story within the life becoming the life within the story!”Near Death Experience Transforms One Man’s Life in AutobiographyThe surgeon gave his family two dead or at best a vegetable, but he is neitherGetting There… allows readers to find more meaning in everyday events. Birmingham shares the lessons he has learned, providing readers with hope as they face their own obstacles.

117 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 16, 2010

About the author

I am being myself always, an eternal optimist of the human spirit! I can claim and list many things I think I am, but in the end, I am only “what you see.” No matter my credentials I can list for undergraduate and graduate GPA’s during college or writing experiences ranging from formal (independent studies and thesis) to informal (“Facebook’s” Eternal Optimism), you still determine what any of “it” means to you. How does one measure a person’s worth without a perspective of the individual? How does one show that perspective’s accuracy without actions? Then the following question is how to measure those actions, is it done quantitatively or qualitatively? All in all, we endure different challenges during our journey known as life. Our challenges cannot be compared against each other’s because we differ in what we do and will tolerate. We have different “threshold levels,” yet I am you and you are me, human. We share the same characteristics, but our displays of them are different. We all have love, happiness, hope, motivation, and drive to name a small few of the innate traits we share. I believe in “The eternal strife of a positive perspective despite all things, with continual effort to achieve it (E.O).”