I’ll Stumble, I’ll Fall, I’ll Get Up Again Prologue, Chapter One (Revised)

*This is a work of fiction…..

Prologue:

There are those that say you’ll get used to it, the stares, the snide comments, all of it, simply because you’re disabled. But honestly you shouldn’t have to, no one deserves to be treated like a second class citizen, because they happen to be sitting down.

In some ways I was guilty too, of making assumptions, until life threw me a curveball and now I’m the one who depends on a chair to get around.

I never asked for someone to get behind the wheel drunk, but they did, and now I pay the price, but being angry or bitter is not going to change what happened. I’m not going to suddenly get up and walk, if I get mad enough. I know that will take faith and work if it’s God will. And believe me I pray about it.

If anything to much anger, can become a stumbling block, and honestly I’m tired of stumbling.

But I know if I spend all my energy pitying myself, my life will be bleak, I refuse to let that accident be the thing that drug me down. I refuse to let it suck the joy out of my life. I have my moments of course, don’t we all, but I know that one day, I’ll stand again though, if not here, then when I stand before the creator of the universe, and the wait will…