Falcone's Crossroads

Blessings in Disguise

There’s a great line in the 1994 film Forrest Gump where Forrest’s mother is trying to help her son to cope after he’s just received special corrective leg braces to straighten his spine. She tells him, “If God intended everybody to be the same, he’d have given everyone braces on their legs.” In one stroke, she softens the awkwardness of his situation by spinning his own non-conformity as a shortcoming of the rest of the world instead.