I did all my traveling around in my youth, there's nowhere I wish to go I haven't already been.  My love of sailing yachts comes from their portability, the fact you can take your home with you wherever you go.  That's what I liked about trucking also.  It's a degree of freedom you can have otherwise unattainable in our society.  You just need a way to earn a living wherever you go, which I have always been able to do.

I find plenty to do exploring the world of ideas, I'm not constricted by physical limitations.  I can be in a prison cell and just debate myself if need be to stay entertained.  This also gives me a degree of freedom otherwise unattainable.  The fact I have physical limitations just gives me more time and more freedom to think.  In that respect, it's a bonus.

Would I rather have both legs and be living on a sailboat instead of buzzing around the gulag on my EV wheelchair?  Of course, but  that's not how things worked out.  I also could have been dead already, many times over.  As things worked out, overall I had a very interesting life without having to compromise my principles too often.  Now I have plenty of time to kick back and contemplate the human condition.  I don't go hungry and I have a roof over my head.  I have no debts and no current crisis hitting me or my neighborhood.  I'm in a lot better shape than a lot of USAID workers right now, that's for sure.  You can save your pity for them, I don't need it.  Life is quite OK here overall.

RE