A Very Special Fiction Friday: Featuring Tough Social Issues

Bobby was a multiracial sexually-confused atheist child born to a fundamentalist muslim mother and a fundamentalist christian father, both of whom loved their daughter and accepted each others' differences. The other kids at school embraced Bobby without reservation, tolerant and supportive of the girl's struggle over and through many obstacles. Bobby did well in school, and then entered the workforce, working hard for a good cause for several years and making a big impact on those around her. She became handicapped at one point; it was a crushing blow. Bobby thought "did my dreams die as well?" But she perservered, and found solace in the loving support of a community that opened up to return what she had so selflessly given, that reached out to her and helped her back up. Her workplace was super-accommodating in easing her back into a productive routine. Eventually she felt that her life was just as rich as before, and then suddenly in a stroke of freak luck, her mobility was restored by chance encounter with a quack healer from Polynesia, whose efforts produced in Bobby what medical science has ruled a "placebo miracle." Bursting with the optimism of an unlooked-for second chance, Bobby rededicated herself to exploration: both to traveling the greater world over, and to mapping the world within her. Most rewarding of all, Bobby found more-or-less-lasting love with her sometime-soulmate Gil, who had gone through a remarkably similar life's journey in order to find Bobby, lose her, and then find her again, (The End).

Now, maybe all of that doesn't mean a thing to you and me. But if there's a moral to the story, it's that people like Bobby prove without any possibility of a doubt that maybe all the supposed "troubles" "struggles" and "issues" that people make such a big deal out of are perhaps not such a "big deal" as they're made out to be, because if you just keep going, and if you can avoid being smeared at random across the surface of the earth by a sudden, un-aimed brutal force passing through that wasn't particularly trying to crush you, or indeed, take any notice of you whatsoever, you may end up looking back at it all and saying:

"Hey, that wasn't so bad!"