Thinking

I have never responded well to the concept of limitations.
Someone tells me, "You can't."
And I must prove them wrong.
The fact you are using a computer to read this is proof of this.
I was told back in 1975, "A disk drive can not .....",
So, I wrote the first "digital" disk drive operating system.
Yeah, I was fired for it.
IBM found my creation far more interesting!

And now I learn that I did sustain bodily damage in the stroke four years ago .....
That piece of information changes almost all of my plans!
 I should have been able to guess at this.
But, my left side has always been my weakest!
So, during recovery,
It did not surprise me that driving was hard.
Or, doing up buttons.

sigh

I am unsure what the limitation means to my desires to:
Ride the 210 mile Seattle To Portland bicycle ride again
Hunt for lost treasures
Hike the Yukon Trail with Swede, as his grandfather did in 1897
Climb Longs Peak again
Kill that Russian boar with my name on it
Can I even still shoot, much less at long distances?
or ... so many, many other things!

 I just do not know now how active I can be and still survive.
Darn those lousy genetics!

But, oh well, nothing I can do about it!
But, I can still push the boundaries,
To see what I can still do.