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What I Didn’t Learn From Being Paralyzed

Harris Sockel
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readSep 23, 2019

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Illustration: Alex Eben

The privilege of youth is the ability to forget you have a physical existence, or to remember it only when it’s convenient.

The world is literally moving, and if you want to survive within it you must move, too.

My body refused to hand over the controls, even as it was fixing itself.

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