Thursday, December 18, 2008
Outside reading post
In Moving Violations, John Hockenberry's world has completely changed because of his accident. Everything that used to be simple tasks that he never had thought about have suddenly become daunting. He describes his adventures of making it across a sidewalk. "It was crucial to be aware of the curbs at each intersection. It was on the concrete lip of each of these curbs that the most gripping of my early physical dramas were played out" (104). Walking across the sidewalk used to be something he never had to think about. Now that he is in a wheelchair, he has to pay attention to every single detail. Hockenberry notes how easily everyone else moves around and comments, "If the able-bodied hiked casually through the world's physical terrain, I approached it as a golfer playing sudden death on the back nine at Augusta" (105). Nothing is easy for Hockenberry anymore, and he must do everything with the utmost care. Just because of one accident, John Hockenberry had to completely alter his lifestyle.
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It is obvious that being in a wheelchair is going to change your life, and it would be impossible to carry on living as they had before. What you're saying is right, and I think it would be hard for anyone to disagree. If you have ever broken a leg or arm, you would know the frustration of not being able to do much for a few months. Now think about it as the rest of your life, and you can now get an idea of what it must be like.
This really goes to show how much we take the every day things in life for granted. We don't appreciate, or even thing about how the tasks that may seem so easy for us could be extremely difficult for others. That in an instant our lives could change for ever. But you deal and move on because that is all you can do. It really reminds me to appreciate what I have and to be careful because we only get to live once.
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