A feat is a great and difficult deed, for which you will especially respect yourself. Each of us is capable of a feat in the most ordinary life, and stories about such feats help us to do it more beautifully and more often.
Dasha Ryazanova
From an interview with Dasha Ryazanova, a leading specialist in training programs for children and adolescents, Sinton:
I was 14 years old, and I broke my leg very badly: in several places, with a rupture of the ligaments, then they put a plaster cast incorrectly. As a result, I was prescribed a free wand and diagnosed with lifelong lameness, without physical exertion. And I decided that I would fight. Until the last. I threw away the direction to buy a stick, went with my mother for treatment to a sanatorium in Western Ukraine. It was a difficult period. Every day 3 — 4 hours on the bedstead to the sanatorium, procedures, then back, on a ride, on foot, sometimes 7 — 8 kilometers, in the heat, but my leg hurts. And of course, I went alone. And no mobile phones. And then — the most interesting. The doctor said that there is one surest remedy, if there is enough willpower. You have to go to the sea and walk 5 kilometers every day without stopping along the pebbles along the coast so that the water washes your feet. At first it seemed — nonsense. But you try it! The first 5 minutes are pleasant, then the legs begin to freeze and hurt, and the broken leg hurts so much with every step. But I walked, cried, fell, got up, walked again. I don’t know what helped more — mud, sea, physiotherapy. I think my insane confidence that I won’t limp. Moreover, no one will guess what kind of injury I had. And so it happened. No one guesses, only doctors are still surprised: “You shouldn’t walk!” And I go. And I went on the most difficult hikes, and I go skiing and cycling. And today, with any difficulty, I remember myself at the age of 14 and think: can I really not be able to now, if I could then?