Awakenings (How does the movie Awakenings make you realize how much you take for granted?)

In the movie Awakenings, a psychiatrist takes an interest in the patients that are in a statue-esque state. After much research and experimentation, he concludes that the patients were misdiagnosed, and actually have a severe case of Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's disease is a progressive nervous disease associated with the destruction of brain cells that produce dopamine and characterized by muscular tremor, slowing of movement, partial facial paralysis, peculiarity of gait and posture, and weakness. His …

…how much we take for granted. If you were to have a severe disability, it would be the small things in life that you would miss, watching the sunrise and sunset, having the open road at your disposal, and just being able to make your own decisions. We take these things for granted because we have full access to it, maybe it really is healthy to stop and smell the roses once and a while.