Perspective: n. a personal point of view

There are approximately 150 students attending this conference. We all do the same thing, relatively. We all wake up in the morning, enjoy breakfast or not, and head toward the bus. Some in heels, some in flats, but one in particular, in a wheelchair. Due to torn ACL and OCD or whatever else is in there, she cannot walk. When I saw it, I thought about how badly it must suck to be so limited during such a great opportunity. But, no sooner than the thought simmered in my brain for a minute or so, I realized what I was really looking at. I was looking at a prime example of the industry I arrived here to study. She takes the elevator while we take the stairs. She gets aisle seat by default. We may think there are little things she misses out on, but its us that is lacking. There are a hundred of us and one of her. a hundred of the same seat sitting staircase taking kids and one impaired girl. The industry is lacking that variation It needs to have people like her, sitting in a wheel chair. She is doing the same things that every single other person in the room is doing, but just a bit DIFFERENTLY. THough her situation is involuntary, in journalism, that variation of perspective is what we all strive for to keep life SPICY.