Silent World
I saw the most brilliant sight yesterday while travelling back from work. A group of girls in their early teens animatedly conversing with each other oblivious to the fact that the whole bus was staring at them.
As I moved to the entrance i noticed the girls saying bye to each other & expressing so much more with their eyes than we could with a thousand words.A question cropped up i my mind ,who is challenged?
I am supposedly a "normal" human being who can hear & speak & in comparison they couldn't. They were a group of deaf and dumb students who showed me that their world too is full of laughter and communication, like ours. Only that we don't understand their world. While they communicate with their silence we are creating a silent world with no communication! We are busy with our routine tasks!
The only question that cropped up was who said their world was quiet?Think again before you feel sorry for them! A little more thought and maybe we'll be feeling sorry for our own selves.Isn't our world quieter?
posted by Unknown @ 1:16 AM
22 Comments:
you said it very well!. I've had the same thoughts whenever I see them.
This is such a lovely post. we may be normal... we fail to understand, there are so many who are "above" normal :)
nice post!!!! these people have some special powers....
I hate it when people staring for minutes at the deaf and dumb people speaking to each other in their own language. Kind of looking at some aliens. Isn't our society matured enough not to show the 'sympathy'??
While they communicate with their silence we are creating a silent world with no communication!
Beautifully written.
Very true.. probably they 'sympathize' on us for our mental handicap!
watch the programme "arattai arangam" in sun tv and u'll be convinced that it is actually the disabled people who are confident and hence successful while we people,hale and healthy,are simply nothing compared to them.
They are living in there own silent world. we should be proud to see there self confident. nice post.
Thanks for droping your comment on my blog.
yeh...remember reading an article online..about celebrating Rajnikanth's bday the other day....
the van which they had set up for that purpose...went around town..and they spotted this group of noisy kids..
It turned out all of them were visually impaired.
The excitement they had when they were asked if they wanted to sign up the card and wish the superstar..was to be seen to be believed..it seems,....:-)
we need to learn some good lesson from them......they seems quenched with their life and we plp put question mark in our life everytime......what we usually do!!! nothing more than showing pity,putting them in physically challenged group, starring them like dump...why don't we support them normally....
and yeah u said so true their quiet world is full of happiness unlike ours' where everyone busy abusing each other through sounded word.......
Good Observation and a nice thought !
Keep Posting !!
**While they communicate with their silence we are creating a silent world with no communication!
very sad but very encouraging...we must all learn from them...how selfish the 'able' man is?
Keshi.
Hi !
wonderful post. Sometimes its this special kids who value things in life more than us who think we possess everything but yet not everything.
They may not be perfect but yet they know how to walk through life with a smile.How overwhelmingis that..!
an overwhelming post indeed random! Love it.
I thin its in the movie Eternal Sunshin of the Spotless Mind that has this...
"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating"
may be thats what most of us do! :)
good one!
@Chez: I've always wante dto pen them & thay's how this post came about!
@srividya: Very true!
@exasparater: GOd makes sure he makes for their shortcoming, right?
@jo: Honestly it puts one off! But its difficult to make them understand!
@eb: Infact i haven't given that a thought, maybe u r right!
@sheks: I always admired they face life! Will catch the prog.
@Jeevan: Sure Jeevan, u r right!
@ginkgo: Cud this be the superstar's magic?
@nitika: Strange but true!
Thanx barani!
Yeah Keshi!I agree.
my unveilings: Truth hurts,right?
@Barath: On a lighter note agreeing with you is this quote:
"It's better to shut up & keep the world in doubt if you are a fool or not.. than open your mouth & remove all that doubt!"
silence is golden... and this is a classic example...
thanx for stopping by :)
my aunt works with spastic children and i have visited their school a couple of times ...
They are so much more innocent and straightforward than ne of us ...
itz a pleasure to be with them
they are differently abled :-).
Beautiful Post! Yeah it absolutely true Freedom of Expression is thoroughly excercised no matter what!!! Very nice post !
thats some thought . The word "specially abled" has a totally different meaning after reading this .
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