Sophie Morgan Instagram – I remember being so moved by the image of the man beside his chair in the water (@tsapatakis_a 👉🏻) the first time I saw it; it brought me to tears.
When I knew I would be experiencing weightlessness at zero gravity, I asked if I could recreate it. And here it is—my fantasy, a reality.
In weightlessness, I was free from the constraints of my disability, as though I were in water, but zero gravity feels better than water. It feels strangely more natural, somehow.
After two decades of being paralysed, my mind couldn’t take it all in, and yet, it felt familiar to be “upright” like I was in my memories, in my dreams…in one of my drawings.
When I returned from zero-g, I found this line drawing I had made not long after my injury, and its sentiment shook me.
I think these images prove that “Disability” is a construct, an ever-evolving paradigm, one that we all have the power and the responsibility to change.
It also feels important that me and my wheelchair are in a space that currently belongs to those pushing the limits of human potential, touching and testing the future of travel.
I’ll never forget this feeling. In truth, I have been dreaming of experiencing it again ever since.
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