This has been the first week without the giant Megaman boot.
It's a little like learning to walk again. I took a very slow half mile on the treadmill and it was then that I noticed how much I list to the right. When I tried to even out my gait, my left leg shook under me with every step. My calf is very sore now, but it's a good kind of sore. (= Hopefully my legs will be the same size again soon. I'm looking forward to being back up to normal operation.
It made me realize how difficult it must be for my Dad every day, because he has nerve damage to his legs that makes it difficult to walk. Of course, for him, it isn't temporary, and there is no boot that eventually comes off and lets him get back to operating at the level he'd like.
While I can't say that this made me understand my father any better, because what person really knows what it's like to be another? This week made me realize what a complex and wonderful ability walking is. And made me think about how I love my father very much.
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I know how experiences like that tend to throw everything into a new perspective, living something helps you understand it.
One of my uncles has MS...he can no longer walk, nor see. Have i ever not been able to walk? No. Have i ever not been able to see? No. But do i understand that he is going through a lot right now, and that even though i don't understand, i can still lend support? Yes.
Indeed it is impossible to know what its like to live the life of someone else, but that doesn't mean i can't lend that beam of support to someone, even though i don't truly understand the situation of another.
Sorry, this post was so long it looks like i am trying to write my own blog post!
~Surmuck; Puzzle pirates fanatic.
PS: I found this blog off the Three Rings About section, and thought i would leave a note, if you don't feel i should be posting, you have all rights to delete this, thankees <3
Posted by Surmuck | May 7, 2007 9:49 PM
Posted on May 7, 2007 21:49