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Explanation of sorts
Written by Sean on Wednesday, January 1, 1997
Someone just proposed an explanation of why we feel like we do. It is not a scientific explanation, far from it… But what if??? At this point it is as good an explanation as any other, so I figure I might as well present it here. What if we desperately want to be disabled, be it amputated, receive a SCI, or anything else, because we were disabled in a past life and were not able to deal with it? Is it not possible that we would search for the disability in order to then be able to come to terms with it?
A paraplegic friend of mine told me something that made me think a lot. I haven’t yet figured out what to do with it. She said that while I was experiencing some of her physical world by pretending, she felt that emotionally we were closer together when I wasn’t using my chair. She says that the frustration of wanting something and not getting it are probably close, while different, from a disability point of view or a wannabe point of view.
It would seem that we have to divide experiences in two: Physical and Emotional. Too bad that we cannot have both at the same time. I am sure in some ways it is possible to get some similarities, and join both those aspects, but my friend was right in pointing that out to me. It’s definitely not easy.
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