Of course observing people is fun. If only we could see, really see, the things that we do to others and to ourselves, then I wonder if we could ever be interested in watching reality shows or movies ever again.

Take those who are demanding No Win No Fee claims, for example. Before their accidents they were usually happy-go-lucky people, the sort of people you usually predict leading mean and women of books ought to be. Always thinking that life is all for the good, that God will prohibit anything bad to happen, especially to them, and expecting things to always go on as planned, they become traumatized the moment these frames of mind are crushed by an injurious accident.

I would not have commented on them, except for the fact that after their accidents, I see them to undergo several psychological transformations, the end of which is to make me wonder if I could ever consider their new broken and hurt identities to be similar to the ones before.

This is what I mean. As if they were in denial, not really in a kind of understanding of how the world works, their injuries completely shatter their worldviews. Unlike people who are not so optimistic in life, these cheerful people after their accidents almost always lapse into a morose cynicism. It was as if the short moment of the injurious accident contained years and years of maturity that forced itself onto their consciousness without their having expected it.

Yes, that is probably the right term. That is, people who are recovering from an injurious accident and decide to file No Win No Fee claims experience not so much a learning process, but an aging process. They simply grow old.

This is what unperceptive people fail to realize. When they talk to people recovering from an injurious accident, they should not look at them as if they were still substantially who they were before the incident. Far from it, they should look at them as new individuals, as beings who have felt a dark enlightenment and forced to modify their old personalities to suit their new realities.




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