The truth of the matter
June 29, 2009
I recently visited a friend who is physically challenged. In the last few years he has experienced hardship in moving around his house and yet he adamantly refuses to see doctors, believing that he has the key to regaining his mobility.
In conversation, he declared that he’d been working in the realm between dreams and reality, and so had not given much thought to his physicality, viewing his present condition as a ‘pit stop’. But now his attention is back on his physical health and well-being.
Another friend, now in a wheelchair, states that she wants to be considered as normal and not to be viewed as ‘disabled’.
Both these people have an unwavering strength of determination to have everyone realise that their experiences are expressions of physical transformation and must not be seen as diminishment or impairment of their being. In their eyes, there are no disabled people.
That’s a big statement to make … and a fundamental challenge to established ideas of what we view as ‘normal’.
The strength of these people is in being true to what they fundamentally know is true.