The term "disabilities Unlimited" is intended to convey our limitless potential in the midst of all our disabilities. We have unlimited opportunity to make of ourselves whatever we wish, so help my disabilities!
In our modern world we are not entirely misguided, for we are learning to accept disabilities as acceptable in an increasingly positive way. We may even be on the verge of admitting that we all have disabilities, and dealing with them with a positive attitude.
We have grown, in many ways, as a civilization. We have grown from segregating disabled people to including them. We should be proud of ourselves for that. Amid the doom and gloom of our world let us not overlook this progress towards compassion.
Einstein was once asked to write a letter to posterity for inclusion in a time capsule. He wrote something like this: "If you have not become more compassionate, more tolerant, and kinder than we were, may the devil take you."
Aging and injury, in a sense, may be regarded as disabilities. Many retired fotball players can speak about this, about the difficulty of walking slowly the same distance which a few short years ago flashed past like lightening. Any sixty year old runner comparing his current time and distance to what he or she achieved three decades ago is experiencing a sort of "creeping disability", a truly universal one. We all go through it.
In thinking about the way Amerian culture has changed its treatment of blacks and women during the past half century, and the way the trreatment of gay people seems to be changing, one might even have hope that Dr. Einstein wouldn't send us all to the devil after all.
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