Realizing the Gap

From a short distance, one man watched another rolling down the sidewalk in his motorized wheelchair. The chair bound person appeared anything but restrained as he ported a great big smile and an unharnessed laugh. His lively energy seemed to transmit like light itself, bouncing off his accompanying friend, the walls of buildings, cars... everything and everybody that passed the eye. Like a circus lion, the watcher felt trapped, locked in a cage, having to recognize that there was no space for denial or time for delay, for it was evident that the gap between themselves was far greater than just two meters. E