Friday, April 22, 2005
the tilt-me kid cont'd
so i have a really easy life. it's true. and i know it.
i hang around with some of the coolest kids you could ever want to meet...
like the tilt-me kid: his life is so much harder than anything i've ever had to deal with. he's 13. he's a quadriplegic. his dream is to walk; his reality is his head-controlled wheelchair. he has to rely on someone else for pretty much everything.
he humbles me.
he's also really smart. but people look at him -- IF they look at him -- and dismiss him... he can't possibly have a mind that works if his arms and legs don't, right?
the tilt-me kid sees prejudice, inequality, condescension, ignorance.
the tilt-me kid sees it, hates it, sucks it up, gets on with life.
yeah, he complains about the big stuff once in a while (generally in a mildly sarcastic story, which i love...) but for the most part he's pretty content with life.
he humbles me.
i hang around with some of the coolest kids you could ever want to meet...
like the tilt-me kid: his life is so much harder than anything i've ever had to deal with. he's 13. he's a quadriplegic. his dream is to walk; his reality is his head-controlled wheelchair. he has to rely on someone else for pretty much everything.
he humbles me.
he's also really smart. but people look at him -- IF they look at him -- and dismiss him... he can't possibly have a mind that works if his arms and legs don't, right?
the tilt-me kid sees prejudice, inequality, condescension, ignorance.
the tilt-me kid sees it, hates it, sucks it up, gets on with life.
yeah, he complains about the big stuff once in a while (generally in a mildly sarcastic story, which i love...) but for the most part he's pretty content with life.
he humbles me.
# posted by jenn @ 10:40 AM 
