I caught an interview with the surgeon who is renown for separating conjoined twins:
"Well you know most people in life don't accomplish a great deal simply because they are afraid to take risks. Then there is a group of people who neve accomplish anything because they take too many of the wrong risks."
He went on to say: "I was thinking about this, and it really came about a few years ago after the case of the Bijani twins, these were the young women from Iran who were joined at the head and their dream was to be separated. I wasn't enthusiastic about being involved, but they were going to have the surgery in Singapore if I helped or not."
"I felt obligated to go and, I ended up learning a great deal from those two women. One was a lawyer, and one was a journalist, and both had won several awards. They were very intelligent, and they said to me; "We would rather die than spend another day joined together."
They were willing to take the risk to become more fully themselves individually. It caused me to look inside myself deeply and decide if I was willing to take risks in my own life to become more knowledgeable, and more accessible to those who shared the same aspirations as these two....
