Flying high

Here’s a picture of something that you’ll never see me doing, but, putting the reasons for that aside, i’d still like to try it one day.
Health and Safety would drop dead with shock and they’d insist on a parachute being fitted to the wheelchair, one that would open automatically, as soon aa i left the plane. On the ground will be emergency support staff who will check to see that i’m still breathing when i landed. SALT will find a reason to be there - they always do!.

Stranger things have occured though, and they always will. Where would we be without the hope, that one day, they will actually become a reality? The answer is to never stop dreaming.
Who would have thought that such a simple thing as the telephone would become what it has today?. It used to be a device you used to talk into but now it’s reached a whole new level. You can take photographs with a phone, take video clips with it or even send text messages with it. The future is amazing and, so it seems, always will be.

What it means to be disabled these days, as opposed to a hundred years ago, is massive. The changes are there for all to see. Now we have electric wheelchairs with as much technology as a jumbo jet. The digital age, also called the information age, is defined as the time period starting in the 1970s with the introduction of the personal computer with subsequent technology introduced providing the ability to transfer information freely and quickly. It was the kind of change that the world had never seen and one that we wished we had been prepared for.

They ask me what i want to do. There’s very little i can do,actually. Go for a coffee? Er, no that’s not possible. Play a game of pool? I can’t stand up. Go for a walk? See the answer to the previous question. I can read a book but do very little else that would interest me.I would try sky-diving but i’m stuck in a wheelchair. I knowi it sounds like a daft thing to say but thank goodness i wasn’t disabled in the 60s.

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