Another Person's Perspective
Someone asked me, " When (with emphasis) are you going to drive?" "I don't know" was my response. "Well, what do you do all day?" I told her, but nothing I said was good enough. When I said I was walking, she asked, "How much?" She proceeded to tell me about a paralyzed person who lives by herself and was doing a road trip. "There's so much more to life than these four walls, " she said. "You are limiting yourself." As if that weren't enough, she said, "You've just got to want to." What the woman didn't know was I had a very painful morning. It had taken hours to get my body in a good place. I wasn't in the mood to fight. I didn't have the energy or mental focus to respond. Now I would say, "What does it matter to you what I do all day? Why do you have to be so negative? Driving isn't an end all be all thing. I have to learn to walk again before