Leaving Treadmarkz Across the Universe

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.