Lame post

Have you ever hurt your leg so bad that you're unable to walk properly? It's shit innit? Going from a room to the next makes you feel like Frodo on his way to 'Maghtab'. A never ending journey with evil encounters. Taking a piss becomes an adventure in itself and climbing the stairs a practical impossibility. Going out of the house is even worse. It feels like the world is constantly throwing gambetti at you. The pavement is suddenly a liliput bastion and all the normally quasi-tolerated potholes become conspiracy theories. If luck is on your side a low-floor bus comes your way. But then again, you realise you don't really fit in the seat. Walking takes longer and doing 'normal' activities suddenly becomes more complex. And it's not the injury that pisses you off most. It's just that the infrastructure is created with a lot of stereotypes and assumptions in mind that make no sense whatsoever when you don't fit in them. What's the use of a high pavement if you can't bend your sodding leg? Of what use is a staircase if you can't go up?

Life is shit when you're not completely mobile. And it's frustrating when you're temporarily unable to move. Freedom of movement on a micro level becomes a farce. That's the permanent reality of the physically impaired. That's the permanent reality of the socially disabled.