Wishes

I wish I was more able than I am, but my life does not end because I use a wheelchair. I know that my life isn’t over, but sometimes I feel like I am standing still & everyone around me is moving forward.

I want to have a guy to go out to dinner with. It would be nice to have a guy to go for walks by the lake. That may happen at some point, but right now it isn’t on my radar screen.

Eventually I’d love to have a baby. Not an unreasonable dream considering that I am twenty-eight years old. I want to have a family of my own someday. It may be more complicated because of my condition, but that is no reason to give up on a dream.

I’d like to have a career. One that paid me money for doing something I love to do. One step at a time I suppose. Volunteering is the next step.

Not everybody knows how to react to a person in a wheelchair & that is okay with me. I cannot expect everyone to automatically know how to act around me. I hope people can learn something from interacting with me.  Not everyone is as they might first appear. Please don’t stare; your children are watching everything you do.

These are my hopes & dreams for the future.

Dream Big!