First things first, Happy New Year to all you beautiful people. It still has not sunk in that we have entered yet another year. The idea of time is still one that makes mine and many others minds tick with bewilderment. For some that is not a real solid thing, it has an ability to give one a serious slap into reality and the fact that we don’t have forever to play with.

Which brings me to why I want to write this blog post. I know it has been a long time and I have not been on my best behavior in terms of keeping things current. I feel as if time took its way with me and I really couldn’t catch up with it all. But I am hopefully back with it and I have high intensions to keep going strong. As I was saying, we don’t have forever….
Anything can change at any time. Your life can spin right on its head at the least bit of notice or expectation. Something that is trending lately is the fires that have caused quite the natural disaster in LA. One thing that I came across is that there were people within the disabled community that were unfortunately unable to escape these fires.

The video at the time, said that there were three deaths of people who were classified in the disabled community. A natural disaster on its own is terrifying. A natural disaster experienced by a person that cannot escape due to reasons that are beyond their own control is simply unimaginable. Sometimes I think that having a disability could be a lot worse and this would definitely be one of those situations. I cannot even think of the idea of being trapped in my own house or yet again a strange place when something like a natural disaster occurs at such a deadly rate. Not having the ability to get in a vehicle and make my own way out of the mess or being able to just run away on foot. Just for the pure reason of
my vision not being adequate enough to see which is the safest root. I don’t think there could be something scarier.

The people of which I speak can be found on platforms such as Molly Burkes Instagram page among others. The attention it brought to me and the idea that this could be anyone of us, was so prominent. The thing is that the professionals that were supposed to be there, were not. People who were in need, did not get the help. Maybe there could be an
explanation behind why the authorities did not show but the matter of the fact is that these people only had the reliance of said officials. The services failed them and due to their uncontrollable situation, they had their lives taken.

It is a huge disappointment to know that these people lost their lives due to the fact that such official services failed them. A minority group that anyone can be a part of at any moment in time, failed. Having a disability is not something that one can expect. It is not something that one can control, stop or even fix in its entirety. I would hate to be a part of a situation where I am failed by those who give their lives to supposedly helping others. The unfairness that they had no other way of escaping. Just having to accept the fact they were trapped and forgotten by those that promised the help…

I never want to feel that terror…

Even though I am a part of this community, I only hope that I am not one of the people who are forgotten in a situation like this. In minor way I have been forgotten, but to put it on such a scale…. I don’t think there could be something that could scare me like that…