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Cover stories and reasons why
Written by Sophie on Friday, August 4, 2006
You know those little stories you make up while you’re on the internet? The internet is the chance to be the person you feel you’re meant to be. You can create a whole new person on the internet and be that person. I told Sean about "me" a few days ago and he challenged me to think about why I thought up that scenario.
Why did I choose to be injured one way and not another? My first answer was "that’s the person I feel I’m meant to be", Sean told me to dig deeper. At this point I won’t disclose who this person is but I will discuss the things it’s made me think about. I have no idea why I chose that story over another, I guess I wanted to be different; I didn’t just want to say "I got hurt in a car crash".
Then why did I involve other people in this story? I guess I didn’t want to be responsible for my accident, and that’s what I want it to be, it would be so nice if I were injured in an accident rather than an "accident". In a way it would be confirmation that this is who I am meant to be. Nothing is certain in life. We never know if the path we are following is the right one. We can only act on faith and hope that we come out the other side happy and contented.
Me? There is only one certain thing for me, that I’m meant to be a paraplegic, nothing more, nothing less. I’m dreaming dreams. Like anyone I’d like to be rich, happy, have everything I need. I want to travel, I want to see my friends in the US, I want to live with a friend in Canada. I want to meet friends in the UK, Australia. I haven’t even met my friend from the south island; I’ve never ever been to the south island! Time will tell what dreams will come into being, and what ones will be squashed under the wheels of realism, I can only hope the ones that mean the most to me will be the ones that last. What do you think?
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