Paralysed

Paralysed and yet walking, blind and yet standing, deaf and yet hearing, that is a person who is grieving.

I should act, yet I am paralysed by fear.

Here is the paralysed woman of thirty-five who has for twenty years lain in bed the whiles her sister has worked incessantly to maintain her!

He was paralysed with fear.

There's a million dollars in front of you. You can keep it for yourself or pay with it for a surgery for a person you don't know who is in danger of becoming paralysed. You don't know each other. No one will ever know how nobly you acted by giving away all the money for a stranger's surgery, or what base choice you made to take the money confining that person to a wheelchair for the rest of their life. What would you do? Sharing the money is not an option.