Review: No One's Perfect

Title : No One's Perfect
Author : Hirotada Ototake
Category : Biography

Overview
This book is a biography of a japanese guy who is born with Tetra-Amelia, Horotada Ototake. It is a condition where someone born with the absence of arms and legs. This is a very inspirational book. On how Ototake has never complains or takes his disability as excuses. In fact, he inspires others around him. This book starts with the story when he was born, how her mother was not allowed to see him as doctor is afraid she got shocked. But, supprisingly, the first words came from his mom when first saw him (after three weeks) was: "Son, you are so handsome". What a great parent she is.

Then, the story is followed by his efforts he put in from his primary school until he was accepted in Waseda University (one of top 200 world university). How people around him support and help him willingly, what he had done during that time (you will suprise how active he was: He was in basketball team, football team, participating in running competition, and how he manages to 'swim'), what were his dreams, how he started to become public speaker and his efforts put in to create 'free-challenges' environment that is meant to assist all others disable people to enjoy the same opportunity as others.

Opinions
This book shows 'never give up' messages for its reader. It shows how a Ototake can do and achieve something that we might see it as Impossible. One more part in this book that I like best is that Ototake shows to reader something that are very rational. It does an motivational book, but at the same time Ototake has his time where he himself find himself in pessimistic state (it is very logical, or I might said it might be non-sense if he has never feels it). But, at the end, he always finds his way out. Glad for him.

It shows to me, if Ototake can do the 'impossible', why can't I? There is other similar book by Tony Christiansen which I hasn't got the chance to finish reading it. He states something like "do you want to wait until you have no legs to do things you want?". In Christiansen case, he lost his legs in an accident (if not mistaken), but he never gives up. For your suprise, he is master in Taekwondo (Wow~~) and he conquered Everest Mountain in his condition. How it could be?! You and I know the answer. =D

Back to No One's Perfect, things that I do not really like is the way the story is written. I don't know whether it is because it has been translated into Indonesian (I read the Indonesian version, as this book is lent by my cousin) or it is like that in nature. Try to get the english version and see how it is. And don't be so suprise if you find out that Ototake seems to be a stuborn individual, in fact he is. Don't know it is good or not, as his stuborness has brought him to his current condition, if he were to humble in nature, he might be different person. The moral of the story is just take the positive part. =D