Welfare day
Today at school was Welfare day and a whole bunch of different people came to talk to us about various issues affecting adolescents such as sex, risk taking, safe + happy relationships, drugs, alcohol, driving and peer pressure. Everyone always seems to think days like this are boring, but I really enjoyed today and from the way everyone was laughing I think they all liked it too.
The activity I enjoyed the most was the risk taking segment in which a man who is paralysed and in a wheel chair came and spoke to us about how he went out binge-drinking late one night with a group of friends as a teenager. He then went home without a seat belt and with an intoxicated driver.
He spoke to us all about how the way people view him and his capabilities has changed completely. How people look at him sympathetically now and how much he hates that. How he wishes he could rewind back time and take back his stupid mistakes made that one night. I found what he said moving, I found it so inspiring that he enjoys travelling around and speaking to others of his amazing story.
He just really wants to spread the message around of what consequences can happen because of risk taking. I found it so positive that someone like that can still give life a go and not turn their back on it.
He spoke of depression also and how someone with all their usual abilities taken from them suddenly would obviously feel very isolated and worthless. He spoke of how his accident brought his self-esteem down, but how life is what it is and you have to love what you are given.
I almost cried at the thoughts that people like that, like him can still love life and that I find it so hard to look in the mirror and like me when I do not have any physical disabilities or problems like that. I need to learn to appreciate the wonderful things I have in life and stop doubting that my future will be so bright- because it will. Because I will gather this hope and it will lead to me an unexpected happiness that I never even knew existed.
I also find it very funny that today during the sex education, I am still such a little kid and cannot help laughing crazily whenever words like "vagina, penis, ejaculation and orgasm" are mentioned :) Today was good. My mood was up and it was all marvellous.
Tonight my mother told me she wants to have a talk with me.........today I finally worked up the courage to tell her that my weight was down at my outpatient appointment. I wonder if she's going to talk to me about that?? Or maybe she's finally realised that our relationship is slowly dissolving into nothingness.....................or maybe she still hasn't figured that part out yet.
The activity I enjoyed the most was the risk taking segment in which a man who is paralysed and in a wheel chair came and spoke to us about how he went out binge-drinking late one night with a group of friends as a teenager. He then went home without a seat belt and with an intoxicated driver.
He spoke to us all about how the way people view him and his capabilities has changed completely. How people look at him sympathetically now and how much he hates that. How he wishes he could rewind back time and take back his stupid mistakes made that one night. I found what he said moving, I found it so inspiring that he enjoys travelling around and speaking to others of his amazing story.
He just really wants to spread the message around of what consequences can happen because of risk taking. I found it so positive that someone like that can still give life a go and not turn their back on it.
He spoke of depression also and how someone with all their usual abilities taken from them suddenly would obviously feel very isolated and worthless. He spoke of how his accident brought his self-esteem down, but how life is what it is and you have to love what you are given.
I almost cried at the thoughts that people like that, like him can still love life and that I find it so hard to look in the mirror and like me when I do not have any physical disabilities or problems like that. I need to learn to appreciate the wonderful things I have in life and stop doubting that my future will be so bright- because it will. Because I will gather this hope and it will lead to me an unexpected happiness that I never even knew existed.
I also find it very funny that today during the sex education, I am still such a little kid and cannot help laughing crazily whenever words like "vagina, penis, ejaculation and orgasm" are mentioned :) Today was good. My mood was up and it was all marvellous.
Tonight my mother told me she wants to have a talk with me.........today I finally worked up the courage to tell her that my weight was down at my outpatient appointment. I wonder if she's going to talk to me about that?? Or maybe she's finally realised that our relationship is slowly dissolving into nothingness.....................or maybe she still hasn't figured that part out yet.