Ability to see, ability to hear, ability to walk...
Shoulda buckled up!
The crash left you with a crushed peltronic rectometer, and it cannot be fully repaired. Sadly, of three aforementioned abilities, you must forgo one to preserve the rest.
Decide dammit! What will you give up?
Tough call. I sure enjoy walking, but it's probably the ability that can be most closely replaced by mechanical help.
I would miss hearing, but not as much as I would miss reading, or the ability to move independently.
Walking seems like the easiest thing to compensate for.
Lose one of the others and communicating changes forever.
I can still enjoy most of the things I do without my legs.
Yeah, I'd have to sacrifice my ability to walk as well. I have a really difficult time processing information without being able to see something, so I might honestly be completely useless without my sight. Hearing can be compensated for and I know several lovely people who do just fine without it, but it would drastically change how I communicated.
I greatly enjoy my ability to walk, but it isn't so closely tied to how I think and interact with the world.
::is fairly astonished with this poll's results::
How so? Attached to the ol' gams are ya?Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
Nothing I want to accomplish really requires I be able to walk. However, my chosen career path is visual, and I'm not sure how well I'd function without my hearing, considering absolute silence kinda freaks me out.
I am very, very attached to being able to move around under my own power, without the use of expensive medical equipment/expensive adjustments to housing and vehicles.Quote:
Originally posted by Oliveloaf
I have a horror of being a burden to other people. It is my impression that the deaf can live much more independently than paraplegics.
And I am very, very attached to hearing. Just for an example, I figure I've got a better chance of responding to a fire alarm I can hear, even if I can't ambulate, than I am to the flashing lights that are the best alternative for deaf persons.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
Of course, this assumes I can wipe my own bum. Otherwise I'll be asking to trade my hearing for that.
I've seen those lights - they are very very bright. And I already know from experience that bright light can wake me out of a sound sleep, even.Quote:
Originally posted by OtakuLoki
I walk a lot. My job involves running up and down stairs, and back and forth between buildings almost as much as it involves sitting at a desk. My feet are my primary mode of transportation. And I don't even want to contemplate being stuck on a bus or train in a wheelchair. Even on crutches it was a nightmare.
I chose hearing because then I'd still be able to walk over to the gun cabinet, see where the gun is, and then blow my head off. I couldn't live without any of those things.
Losing your hearing means never having to say: "Shut the FUCK UP!".
Reluctantly, legs. Seeing and hearing seem so fundamental to communication, and ultimately communication and human relationships seem more important than mobility.
Ooh, smart. That makes perfect sense.Quote:
Originally posted by Cluricaun
I would give up walking, and then sight. I need music and conversation. There are other ways to read. I'd miss art and other aspects of vision, and I'd need to find a new career, but hearing goes last. (Besides, I'm already so nearsighted that I'm halfway to blind anyway . . .)
The ability to go back in time after hearing music and feeling what I felt way back is something I couldn't give up. Certain melodies go straight to my heart. The song, "On The Street Where You Live" almost moves me to tears sometimes.
Reading is essential to my life, so I'd have to give up walking.
Scary to imagine never skating again, but I would have to deal.
Tough question.
I won't lie, I am pretty sure that if I lost either hearing or sight, I wouldn't get out of bed. Being trapped in either darkness or silence for the rest of my life is so unbelievably scary and if it actually happened, I think I would enter a depressive state.
Bye, bye legs; it's been nice knowing you both.