One watches, as a spectator at a sports event, multiple acts by individuals who engage in self-destructive behavior; of youth and potentialities wasted; of depictions of foolish behavior and that which reflects upon the disintegration of society, and perhaps of civilization; and one may ask the perennial question, “Why?”, yet never be capable of embracing an answer with words when language fails to represent reality. One wonders whether it is ultimately an issue of meaning, value and worth.
In an antiseptic society, where the pursuit of happiness is often misinterpreted as the acquisition of possessions, it is easy to lose sight of meaning. Until one is hit with an illness or chronic medical condition. Then, managing the care of one’s medical condition becomes paramount, and suddenly meaning, value and worth come into sharp focus.
In preparing, formulating and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, people often fall into one of two categories or classes: Those who were quite content with their lives prior to the medical condition; and those who struggled, and on top of it all, had to deal with a progressively deteriorating medical condition.
Regardless of the ‘prior’ category of life, the medical condition itself becomes the focus of the Federal or Postal employee in the pursuit of a stage of life prior to the impact of that condition upon one’s vocation or ability/inability to perform the essential elements of one’s job. Suddenly, the life ‘before’ was one of meaning, value and worth.
Filing for, and obtaining Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management allows for one to attain some semblance of the prior life of meaning, worth and value. It is not the Federal or Postal employee who will engage in random and meaningless acts of violence in an attempt to destroy society; they are the ones who are attempting to secure it.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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OPM Disability Retirement 
I found this very truthful; very much a reality. Some of that reality is very frightning; everyone likes to think they are making a difference
and all of a sudden the struggle with the disability at one’s job is over without one wishing it to be so. It has been one month that I was terminated. It seems like years ago when I worked at doing something I had wished for all my life. It is hard to get past this feeling even having so much to do with gathering info and the filing of forms.