The next time you feel knocked down, remember Hal Hargrave. He took what would have destroyed many people's lives and given them an excuse to lifve out the rest of their time feeling like a victim and sorry for themselves into a powerful gift instead.

Attitude! Perception! Determination! He combined these traits to become more than just a success. In the eyes of his community he instead became a hero!

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He's still big and burly, his arms still muscular and he still works out nearly every day. Only these days Hargrave uses that strength to move his wheelchair in and out of the gym, where he still works out 20 hours a week and knows just about everybody in the place.

 

These days, though, Hargrave's goal is to get walking again, something he lost the ability to do on July 26, 2007, when he swerved his truck to avoid debris in the road. It flipped four times, the cab collapsing on him and snapping his spine. It left him paralyzed from the neck down.

 

The irony is never lost on Hargrave that he was delivering handicapped-accessible bathroom doors as part of a summer job. If it was a sign to a strapping 17-year-old athlete that his life was headed in the wrong direction, it would seem to have been a particularly harsh one, but Hargrave doesn't see it that way.

 

"Some people call me crazy for putting it this way, but I have been given a gift," the talkative, friendly 23-year-old says with a smile over lunch at the gym's small cafe. "They see this as an ailment. I don't."

 

He sees it instead as something that gave him a chance to help others, to have his life truly make a difference.

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