| — We stand up and talk next to the high table alongside the bed,
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| and it creates a feeling of waiting for something. |
| But what will we do once
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| we’re done waiting? |
| Well, in Hasse’s case, there’s not much else to do than go
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| to bed
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| — But have you really gotten all the help you can get?
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| — Yeah, yes. |
| I guess it’s not possible to operate more, and I don’t really know
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| how they have come to that conclusion. |
| I need to go and lay down
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| The room is darkend, in order for him to see the computer screen mor clearly.
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| The furnishing is for a single person, with the bed in the middle of the room,
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| the TV at the foot of the bed and all the other things on the floor are in
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| general disarray. |
| It’s extremely disorganized with stacks of books and papers,
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| coffee mugs, cords and computer stuff. |
| Initially, I become depressed seeing
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| how he lives. |
| Spending entire days here in bed, only to shuffle about every now
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| and then. |
| It’s like he has reverted back into a cocoon. |
| But perhaps it’s not as
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| depressing as it seems. |
| Because when he’s lying there in the dark,
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| something happens to him
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| — Wouldn't it be nice to sit down now?
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| — No, but lying down would be nice
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| Its 13 years since we first met. |
| I’ve always wondered what become of him.
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| I didn’t even know he had moved from town. |
| It’s like he always waited for
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| something. |
| Better days. |
| That the road would become more accessible.
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| I don’t know. |
| I remember he said he would create his own way of supporting
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| himself. |
| He wanted above all to be free, and who doesn’t. |
| We were all afraid of
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| finding ourselves living a boring life, and had to be careful not to make the
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| wrong choices and get stuck somewhere
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| …and I just realized that it should be boring, but strangely enough it isn’t
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| No matter how much I try to bore myself, I’m never bored. |
| I’m actually totally
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| busy, all the time
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| — Have you felt very sad, when realizing that you’re stuck and that the back is
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| so bad that your freedom has become limited?
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| — Yes, I thought I would feel like that. |
| But I didn’t. |
| If you’ve got music,
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| you’ve really got everything. |
| You don’t care if you’ve lost a foot,
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| or any of that crap. |
| I haven’t gotten a depression due to my condition.
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| It was simply just a statement. |
| Apparently, things didn’t get better but so
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| what. |
| It is what it is |