"You know that old party game, "Who Am I This Time?" Or that nursery rhyme about a doctor, lawyer, baker. Whatever. People tend to get identified by what kind of hat they wear during the day. By what is visible, noticeable, obvious about them. So if you've got one arm or get around in a wheelchair or are blind, you're a handicapped person. Maybe you're also a poet or a scholar, a sinner, or a saint. But first and foremost in people's minds, you're handicapped. Not a lot you can do about it, either."
When I was cleaning out my desk for the things that I didn't need I came across a folder full of things from my 8th grade English class. There was an assignment that I had to do which was basically reading a book and then filling out a worksheet with whatever, etc. I had to choose a favorite quote and that's the one that I chose. Book 40. I had also given an explanation of why I liked it and, of course, my teacher thought it was so ~profound~ because I said something along the lines that people's eyes are handicapped because they can't see within someone else, only the outer appearance. Seriously, she wrote 'WOW!!!!' and underlined it many times.
She was also impressed with my writing in general? I used nice, strong language? Haha, three years ago I tried hard to impress people with my AWESUM writing skills but I was honestly a pretty shitty writer. These days I'm inadvertently a "smart, talented writer," and I do not enjoy writing at all. Or do I subconsciously enjoy it and consciously hate it? I don't know. Fact of this matter..I threw away the folder but I went back into the .txt file of the book to get the passage.
These books are addicting.
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