Life tests everybody. Most all question papers set by life are of average difficulty level. For some, life loves to set truly difficult set of questions, and for a few fortunate ones, this tough test is repeated many, many times, time and again!
Why do I call such people fortunate, especially when the world loves to sympathise with them at the face value, though the others' gloating over their unhappiness sometimes cannot be hidden, is reflected in the wicked/weird witchy smiles.
I consider them special, fortunate because they do not let the past, related external factors determine their destiny. In fact, they keep on re-inventing themselves time and again. Can I quote a few examples? Look at Sudha Chandran, for example. At the age of sixteen in a tragic accident, both her legs were crushed. One had to be amputated as it developed acute gangrene.
A talented Bharat Natyam dancer, her world literally crashed. After a tough time of adjusting with the prosthetic leg, she determinedly made it, back to stage as a Bharatnatyam dancer, as a judge at contests, as an actor on the silver screen as well as on the TV. She regularly gives motivational lectures. She has written an autobiographical book, too.
How about Amitabh Bacchan? His body is almost a treasure trove that all sorts of diseases seem to admire. What all illnesses he has suffered! His patient-dom made many rather famous! The near death accident on the set of 'Coolie', huge monetary losses, losing face as a rookie politician, conscious humiliation by the industry as he was soon considered a 'failed' hero, Amitabh took it all upfront, and re-invented himself time and again!
Well, my submission is that the metaphorical grandfather of such never-say-never, real-life heroic personalities is Louis Braille. He lost his sight at twelve, and that by an awl he was playing with. Did he give up? Nope! No way!
He"invented a tactile system of reading and writing for the blind and visually impaired in 1824. The system is called braille and it consists of raised dot codes that are used worldwide to read and write until this day."
For two centuries, he has literally been a light of beacon in their dark wor(l)ds. True, today, the world has changed drastically. The 'visually impaired' have a choice of downloadable, even AI-enabled app's that make every text in to an auditory unit. Yet his unique contribution continues to be truly visible. Hence this blog dedicated to the script and to the man who invented it exactly two hundred years ago!
Pratima@ How I wish "Daddy's darlings" who enjoy a five star life, yet love to wallow in crooked self-pity would at least read about such inspiring people. Well, some of my students have been visually disabled. Yet never have I seen them being the targets of the world wide pandemics of suicidal depression and/or wokeism! The victim mentality is a comfy hiding place, but it diminishes the individual!
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