Hidden
Figures
By Ilina Moreno
Who are they, where, behind the curtain of standards, those inlimbo?
Eliminated by the mainstream alienated, unstables in, say,
“stable” housing, or non- housing?
Like me shaky, standing on one leg in more shaky assisted living,standing on the society’s L/egg shells? Who is more shaky, me, or my“protective home”?
Extraordinary people with special needs, special people walking on the subconscious conscience of the fainting ordinaries? There is an invitation on their stage of creative passion and compassion for everybody, at any time. People who need people, the luckiest ones, waiting for the music to change, so their dance would change with some more chance for nice romance, maybe in France!
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty,” says Mother Teresa.
As it happened, not to me, but to my girlfriend in a wheelchair, when a worker in the amusement park shouted publicly, warning a colleague ”Ej, don’t let this “legless lady”go in the car!” What made me think that our world is divided into two: “Legless”and “Heartless”!
Well, it happened, that “the legless lady” found someone with a big heart who provided super-modern electronic car for her, and now she drives herself not only in the amusement park, but around the world too!
A version of the same thing happened to me when a caregiver shouted to her colleagues warning them not to give me exercises prescribed by the therapist. “Be careful, she is bright and might trick you to give her exercise!” Then, I realized that not only “legless”are “scary”, but ‘bright legless,” especially?
And, it made me join my girlfriend ridearound the world, while at my “stable” housing assisted senior homethey’re waiting pandemic to visit or skip them as habituated to beinginvisible, the same way as they're used to breathing a stale air anddoing nothing!
