Rehabilitation

As I became physically disabled over 30 years ago I was very aware of my reduced mobility, but mentally I was the same person as I was before. I saw my illness as most people do: negative.But I didn’t feel that I would be imperfect or IN-valid somehow. For the first time in my life…

Study Plans

Just before the fatal New Years Eve I had finished the curriculum of my school. I had only the final exam before me that was needed to seal the school education.I had accomplished the first tests as I was in rehabilitation centre. In spring 1980 I completed the second part of the exam. Someone thought…

We all have our role to play

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust As I got my handicap I had from the very beginning the feeling that it was not so important to have many different kind of experiences. More important was that I learned to see my experiences from…

What happened to me?

In my text Foretaste of Forthcoming I write that I found a sustainable ground for my life over 30 years ago in the lyrics of an ancient oriental hymn. I am glad that I can stand tall now and say: this is how it happened. But as everything was happening to me I did not…

Who am I?

45 years ago in the New Year’s Eve I had a stroke in brain and after a week in coma I found myself in hospital totally paralysed and unable to speak. After a half year hospital treatment I got a place in rehabilitation centre. Cold winter and the Christmas Star blossoming on the windowsill in…