Thursday March 8, 2007
Today I ate at the Varsity for lunch by myself because I had to study for speech during third hour so I was able to eat later on. I usually sit with Matt and Pete and his gang during third but since I didn’t eat til Fifth, I had to eat by myself which is nice sometimes. So a guy came over to me while I was eating and asked to sit down. I said sure… we began talking and I noticed a few things, one being that he had an accent… he told me his name was Andrew and he was from Wisconsin but grew up in Russia (hence the accent) ah. Cool. The second thing I noticed is that there was something wrong with his hands… either he was in a fire or it was something at birth or something… but he didn’t have fingers… well he had one or two on each hand and they were deformed and kinda stuck together.
He was a nice guy and we had a good talk. It really made me think when I was eating with him… I mean he never mentioned once about his hands and what was wrong… it was no big deal to him. He just did his thing and actually I thought it was really cool to see how well he could manipulate things like food and his tray and his drink and stuff. It made me think that he has things figured out pretty well when it comes to the outward appearance. I mean if it was me I probably wouldn’t have sat down with a complete stranger because that means I would have had to explain what happened so they wouldn’t be staring.. but if I did sit then I would probably explain somewhere near the beginning of the conversation or something… I mean I am self conscience with myself as being really small and stuff… but that’s the way God made me. This guy didn’t even have normal hands… and he didn’t care. I don’t know if he was just acting like it… but maybe he just realized that God did make him like that too… and since that’s true then there is nothing “wrong” with him. Right?
Hmm…
Interesting.
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