Lost my voice the last couple of days. That's an awkward situation for an attorney--especially on the road on business. It's like a rattle snake without his rattle, a vulture without his bald head, or weasel without his teeth. It is an interesting thing to go through, went through a similar such experience at age twenty-four when I lost my health for about two years. You learn things then that you couldn't learn any other way.
How our physicality is all balled up in who we are and yet how we can learn to find other ways to express and project ourselves. In such situations you either give in to despair or discover new joys and different interests, yet the pain of loss endures. That longing for what you had, who you were.
You learn how people can be so irrationally cruel and others abundantly kind. The stewardess was instantly upset when she couldn't understand my beverage request, the waiter noticeably disturbed when I tried to order. I have an important hearing this coming Tuesday--it will be interesting how it will go over with the Judge if I can't speak.
But the most important thing you learn is that there are many who don't recover after two years like I did, or who don't regain their voice after the illness has passed and experience the irrationality of others and the pain of loss far too many days of their lives.
Don't be the one that who offense at others inability to be "whole." You be the compassionate one who neither condescends nor becomes impatient, but who engages, extends a hand of fellowship, and accepts.
Loren M. Lambert © February 9, 2013
How our physicality is all balled up in who we are and yet how we can learn to find other ways to express and project ourselves. In such situations you either give in to despair or discover new joys and different interests, yet the pain of loss endures. That longing for what you had, who you were.
You learn how people can be so irrationally cruel and others abundantly kind. The stewardess was instantly upset when she couldn't understand my beverage request, the waiter noticeably disturbed when I tried to order. I have an important hearing this coming Tuesday--it will be interesting how it will go over with the Judge if I can't speak.
But the most important thing you learn is that there are many who don't recover after two years like I did, or who don't regain their voice after the illness has passed and experience the irrationality of others and the pain of loss far too many days of their lives.
Don't be the one that who offense at others inability to be "whole." You be the compassionate one who neither condescends nor becomes impatient, but who engages, extends a hand of fellowship, and accepts.
Loren M. Lambert © February 9, 2013
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