Posted by:
blueorchid
(
)
Date: February 21, 2012 11:36PM
What is it like to have your wife disabled for the last twenty years? How does that change your life? Your outlook on life?
What is it like to deal with wheelchair and toilet issues--all the time? How does the challenge of life in a wheelchair suck the life out of everything else until everything is about the damn wheelchair and the bathroom and the bathing and all of the lost dignity?
How does it feel to be helping your wife in the restroom, and suddenly, because of unfortunate circumstance, be made to feel like a pervert? Does all the emotion of lost dreams well up inside of you? Are you horrified to the core at being looked at like that? Are you embarrassed beyond belief to the point where you just want out of that room, as fast as you can,--any way you can? Do you panic from the trauma? Could a gazelle being chased by a lion want to get away any more?
Many knew you were there. Some did not. Very poor judgement by many?
You know what's ahead now from the reaction you got. You aren't prepared. You have irrevocably upset someone. Nothing prepares you for this. You know no explanation is going to be accepted.
The mortification is unbearable.
We do not know Joseph Smith was a prophet, we don't know that the BoM is true, and we don't know what was in that man's mind and heart.
Were any one's actions right or wrong? I don't know that either, I just miss empathy.