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Sometimes you have to really experience something to understand it. It wasn’t until I became disabled I understood the term “contracting world.” The disabled face a much smaller world than those who are not. Say you want to go visit your friend at their home. You probably can’t because almost every home has at least one or two steps up to get into them. Stairs are an absolute barrier to most of us who are disabled. Or even if you can find a way to get into their home, the room where do you used to hang out with them, the rec room, is downstairs. In the summer, there are some chances to visit because get-togethers such as barbecues are held outside. You can invite friends over, but you will find they do not want to constantly come to your place. The only place you can visit with friends outside of your own home is a restaurant. The problem there is it becomes expensive to visit your friends that way even just for coffee. Like many other realities I’ve had to face, a “contracted world” is just another.