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One Certain Truth
Written by Sophie on Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Most of us here have one thing in common. We all have one indisputable fact in our lives that won’t change (at least not in our current circumstances). I NEED to be a paraplegic, end of story (yes Sean I read your post about changing that sentence :P). I’m finding it hard at the moment to find other truths to hold on to.
Through my time being stuck at home with no wheelchair I’ve clung to things like "I want to go overseas" and "I want to go study" and "I want to study Web Development". A friend came over last night and told me off for limiting myself to one path.
"Why not architecture? You have that weird obsession at the moment for drawing floor plans in paint."
The issue with that, I told him, is that I can’t draw to save my life.
What’s my real problem? I’m still afraid of failure after my two crappy attempts at study. Sure both those attempts failed because of things I couldn’t control, not much I can do about shaky hands and a landlady who harassed me to the point of depression. It’s still left me with a $12,000 student loan and nothing to show for it. So here I am, stuck looking for a bunch of courses to choose from that I won’t fail in… And then I have the added issue of how I’m meant to afford to go back to study living wise. Everything would be so much easier if all decisions were "certain truths", but then I guess we’d all miss out on that annoying chance to learn from our mistakes.
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