Random Rambles

Some Don't Understand

Change is difficult but adapting is far more challenging.
Having medical issues, or being different, never fails to put a damper on things.
Want to play a sport? Denied.
"You're injured, sit this one out."
My sincerest apologies, I must have failed to realize you knew my body and capabilities far better than I do.
Simple tasks for others prove to be difficult.
Walking is different than before with a limp and scars to show for injury.
Even sitting is difficult.
Life suddenly becomes lonely.
Often unable to do what most others can, being excluded becomes the new norm.
Pain is common, a side effect for attempting to fit in.
But pain is far better than the alternative: stares, sitting out, little fun.
"Take an ice bath to ease the pain," the common response.
Not only have you lost so many things, but now dreams are taken away.
Forget hopes of the military. 
Forget dreams of competing in the Olympics.
While everyone else's dreams come true, 
there are little options left but to sit back and watch.
"Stop being self-centered," they say.
But life is unfair,
fulfilling many dreams while crushing the dreams of the less fortunate.
Not only physical things are difficult, but school is as well.
Missing is common with physical therapy numerous times a week along with the resulting excruciating pain.
"You don't care about school, you skip," is the rumor.
Yet school is one of the only controllable factors left of life.
Be unique is a wonderful thing, but incredibly difficult when others don't accept it.
In their eyes, being different is being alien, 
as both would be shunned,
treated as outcasts for the remainder of their lives.
Hate is pointless, 
yet an epidemic that cannot be exterminated.