Stephen Hawking

He recalled a time when things were simpler, a small goldfish in a clear plastic bag as opposed to the exotic coral piranha playground that served as his world now. Forcibly reckoning with his own failures was a small part of the learning curve for John, or was it a learning circle? The rest of his daily checklist included pumping up his chest for photos and/or lofty new goals, flexing his wrists in hopes of finding someone who would appreciate his right hand besides himself, and doing back bends to try to work out the kinks that kept him from attempting anything new or risky in life. He knew that, in his life, there was a ubiquitous synergy of fear and confusion that made mundane daily tasks somehow pleasurable, where as a person like say, Stephen Hawking would find these same tasks mundane and most likely, physically impossible.