01/05/2009
Rodney was an attendee in an audience at a speech I was giving in Toowoomba in Queensland. He was a member of the TASC Inc. During my speech we were discussing the rituals which are the downtime that people create in their schedules to allocate to creative thinking, pondering and dreaming. I talked through my theories behind rituals and then threw it to the audience. Rodney said that his ritual was when he wheeled. He said when he's in his wheelchair he'll go out and wheel around the car park or around the office, and while he's out doing that is his creative thinking time.
He said he found it odd that people who were able to walk didn't want to walk, yet people who couldn't walk, were the ones who wanted to. I thought this was beautiful and asked him to explain to the audience. He said that he sits and shakes his head when people try and park as closely to the entry of a shopping centre as possible to save them from having to walk. Wherever possible people who are able bodied will take a short cut to save them from having to walk too far. Yet people who are in a wheelchair are the ones who would do anything to be able to walk again. Ironic but true.