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Living with a disability just means mastering how to handle the hoops.

To prove our worth, we may choose to face each challenge in our life like it is a hoop that we must jump through heroically.

Jumpers who go the distance and get the attention of others by passing through the hoops further our united cause.

Some of us, however, may prefer to make less of a leap.

If jumping through hoops is too radical of a movement, we have the option of making more of a hula kind of motion.

We can hop in that hoop, set it spinning and let the momentum build.

Whether we select an outrageous orange, a brilliant blue or a pulsating pink hoop to surround our spirits, keeping the hoop moving is the most important goal.

Sure it may fall to the ground a few times and the calamitous sound of a crashing hoop may be dismal. Still, those of us who know the power of perseverance must keep our hips hulaing.

With patience and practice, we can learn to enjoy the many revolutions of our hoops and to discover how to get the most reaction for every slight shift of our weight. Others may eventually notice our determined effort to keep the hoop hulaing and begin to recognize the feat we are finagling.

Regardless of the statement we make, be it the high-leaping, awe-inspiring hoop jumping or the concentrated steady, swirling hula hooping, we are in control of our own fates.

We need only give life a whirl.