The Importance of Perspective in Adversity

"I went for being, you know, a normal looking dude to looking like the dude from the movie Mask Rocky with your face swollen up the size of a grapefruit," he says. "No one fucking looked at me in the eye for probably two years." He had 160 stitches in his face and doesn't have any nerve feeling in the left side of his face. 'There's a number of lessons to be learned here'