New Single

Don't forget to hear my cat's new single, about how she loves to look outside, but she belongs indoors (every time she escapes outside she gets terribly afraid, and she retreats back inside),  entitled "Little Koobly's Plight".

My Brain and Epistemology

I injured several body parts in my accident, but I, still, have my sense of self.  As long as I live, I will, always, have my sense of self.  My sense of self keeps me going to therapy, twice a week, without complaining, because I want to feel healthy.  My voice may change, but I won't.

Why Can't Agnostics / Atheists Criticize Religion?

I decided to start writing on my blog, again, because I wanted to criticize a religious person on Facebook, and my mom implored me not to post such a thing a Facebook, because of the high exposure.  My mother follows Catholicism, and I have no problem with Catholics.  I just have a problem with religious people marginalizing my (completely logical) anti-religious viewpoints.

My Secret

When a person sees me scarfing down on food, he or she asks me to share "my secret" for maintaining my slender physique.  My secret: I work really hard in therapy 6 times a week, to recover from this awful accident.  I think my extremely hard work in therapy keeps me fit.  A person thinks he or she can magically lose calories by sitting on his or her ass.

Working Memory

I have a diagnosis of short-term memory loss, among several other things, from my snowboarding accident.  Supposedly, my cognition didn't get affected.  Didn't it, though?  Doesn't all cognition rely on the recollection of events that just happened?  I would contend that my accident affected my cognition a little bit.  I no longer have the intelligence of a genius, like I used to have, but I only have the cognition of a really smart person.  Doesn't an IQ of 197 make a person a genius?

Distinguish

My accident has taught me to distinguish the difference between when you can't do something, or just have an extremely hard time accomplishing something.  I injured the right hemisphere of my brain, so I have a very long and difficult time accomplishing things with my left appendages, but I still have the ability to accomplish things with my left limbs.  I used to say I couldn't do something with my left appendages.  Relative to my healthy body, I just have an extremely difficult time accomplishing tasks with my left limbs.

Righty Loosy, Lefty Tighty

Tense

I don't want a person to refer to me as handicapped when he or she refers to me in the future.  I have very aggressive goals, and I expect to walk, alone, in the near future.  It kind of defines me as handicapped when one assumes that I will need this wheelchair in the future.  I don't think of myself as handicapped.  I think of myself as handicapable.

Brain

The fact that I can muscle through a snowboarding  accident proves that I live positively.  I have made this post as an amendment to my earlier post about positivity and negativity.

Person

A person told me, the other day, "I preach a lot about positivity, but I post a lot of negative things on here."  I have one response to that claim.  I have a very positive attitude, but I make a lot of negative posts as an outlet to all the negative thoughts coursing through my brain.

The Red Sea

Most people think people who follow Sciencetology have a stupid religion, but I question the "mainstream" religions, like Christianity.  Mary had an "immaculate conception", and Moses parted a body of water.  I know  the events that Scientologists believe in sound extremely far-fetched, but what about Christianity?

The Human Condition

Some people, from birth, have a lot of love to give, and don't get enough love in return.  This "lack of love" causes this person to grow bitter towards other human beings, and he or she becomes very obnoxious, because he or she feels that the human race owes him or her something.  So, even the most loving person can annoy other people, and he or she believes that he or she has a right to act obnoxious, because of his or her "poor" treatment.  I expect little from others, so I don't grow too obnoxious.

No, We Can't

Doubting my efforts just gives me more motivation.  If you want me to recover more quickly, just say I can't do something.  When I can walk, alone, I will laugh in the faces of those that doubted me. If you laugh at my effort I will hate you.

The Slush of the Sugar

The important existential question of, "Do I prefer a milkshake, or a shaved ice drink (like a Slushy or a Slurpee) to drink?" constantly plagues me.

Discomfort

My mom pointed out an interesting thing to me, today.  I have started to distinguish the difference between discomfort and extreme pain.  I used to scream, in agony, when I got soap in my left eye (this hurts as my injured brain has a difficult time moistening the eye, when it needs to).  A little soap in the eye won't kill anybody.  I hear people scream all the time in outpatient therapy.  I suspect these screams signify discomfort, not agony.  I just want a person to realize he or she has almost finished therapy.  A person should start presenting himself or herself as if his or her injury has dissipated, or stop using the injury as an excuse for agonizing screams.

Fairytale

I have so much to say about religion I won't even begin to say anything.

Temporality

I have a question concerning time.  I often watch a sporting event on DVR, so that has an, obvious, delay.  Don't most "live" events have a 7 second delay to allow for editing?  Then, wouldn't you have to attend the game, to see the game truly live.  I would argue everything you see for the first time exists as live.  This goes along with one of my favorite phrases of "you are the universe."  This, simply, means you have the only perception.  This brings up another, more interesting, conversation about parallel universes.

Attitude

You experience everything based on your interpretation of that event.  So, if you have a positive attitude, then you will see many things as positive.  Don't have a negative attitude.

*This comes from a pretty lucky guy (I see my accident as luck.  I promise to come out of this thing better than me before March 9, 2011), who has a very great position in the world, and all of his direct family members living.

Life

A lot of times, a person tells me that he or she wishes he or she had my life, because I have very little "responsibilities".  I just think, "No you don't.  If you want my life, you would have to have a snowboarding accident, and sustain several traumatic injuries."  It took me a long time, and a lot of hard work, to arrive at this point.  I, basically, had my entire life taken away from me, and, I had to start from scratch.  If I could, I would trade, right now, with you, because you, most likely, have a fully healthy body.

Placebo

Recovering from my accident has really taught me the importance of expectations.  At first, I tackled therapy with a negative outlook.  No one can really blame me for having this outlook, as I don't think most people would want to exercise for most of the day.  As I had a negative outlook, I, subsequently, had a terrible time at therapy.  Now, I see therapy with a more positive outlook, and I have a much better time.

Suck 2

I will express a couple things that suck about my recovery.  A brain injury causes the sufferer to have an increased sex drive, and he or she will have no filters, and hence an increase in his or her flirtatious behavior.  When I want to go flirt with a sexy girl, I must stop myself, and I think she probably won't understand me.  As attractive as I look, an impaired voice turns females off, I think.  So, I stop myself from flirting with an attractive woman, although I really want to.  Having a beach house, I see, scantily clad, beautiful females, everyday, and I would have an extremely difficult time sleeping with a female, if I snagged her, anyway.  I will communicate another thing that sucks about my recovery.  I have to repeat myself many times to get my parents, two people I depend on, to understand what I freaking say.  For all people with uninjured lungs, I can't speak without exerting a tremendous amount of energy.  So, I have extreme difficulty in repeating myself.