Leaving Treadmarkz Across the Universe

by Treadmarkz

An earlier posting of mine, titled “Scar Tissue” has nothing to do with the Red Hot Chili Peppers song of the same name, but I was probably subconsciously thinking of the song when I wrote my “Scar Tissue”. And I think I know why. The song includes this lyric:

“I’ll make it to the moon if I have to crawl”

I interpret this as an expression of never-ending determination by someone of whom not much is to be expected. If you are in a wheelchair and you are not determined, the world will likely step on you and keep moving. I know this. The world steps on me occasionally, but it happens because I let it.

Sure, nobody is completely unstoppable, but I know, somewhere inside that if you want to make it to the moon, you have to be willing to get there by any means possible.

By any means? Well, you know what I mean. Just don’t step on, or run over the toes of anyone else who is on their own path to the moon, okay?

by Treadmarkz

I have a co-worker who had sat beside me every day for about a year at work when one day my wheelchair came up in discussion, and he told me “I never noticed you were in a wheelchair.” He may have been exaggerating but he was not joking. And no, he is not blind. And he is a fairly perceptive guy. He notices things.

I don’t know about you, but to me, that is fairly high praise, given the very obvious nature of my disability, i.e., the wheelchair. It made me think about John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s concept of Bagism, the idea being that if we all were in bags, nobody could judge us by any superficial factor. But for the first time I believed that Bagism could be a reality without the bags (thank God). All we have to do is look beyond, people. This may sound naive, you may say I’m a dreamer, but I have seen it happen.