Seeing isn’t everything
The most wonderful article I have read in a long time. About two blind people who met at school, fell in love, got married, managed fulfilling careers, had children, and developed what their sighted daughter calls “their own empowering perspective” on life.Etta says she knew of one totally blind couple living in London. “They had a child and I went to visit them when I was a physiotherapy student, [aged] about 24. And they managed perfectly well with their child, who was about a year old. A few years before that, I met a blind woman on a train and she told me that she had five children. And she managed all of them and she did the cooking and everything. So I knew that some blind people had done it. The thing is,” she says, “you just don’t listen to sighted people because they haven’t a clue anyhow. They think, ‘Oh, I couldn’t do that if I couldn’t see.’”
Incredible story.
I suppose Beethoven must have said to himself, “hearing isn’t everything” and gone on to write all that music and the Ninth.
Comment by km — August 1, 2006 @ 2:33 pm
Really incredible! Reminds of.. Helen Keller once asked her friend “what did you notice when u walked past the garden?”. Her friend says “nothing”. Helen thinks, whenever she touched the flowers and felt the dew on the leaves, she admired its beauty wondered how beautiful they would be to look at, but then the people who are gifted to see the beauty hardly ever seem to notice it.
Comment by Kishore — August 1, 2006 @ 3:11 pm
Thanks for sharing that! Phew I just cant imagine how they wud’ve managed. Hats off to that couple.
Comment by Has to be me — August 1, 2006 @ 3:54 pm
Amazing story. Glad to read about something good when there are mostly violence, abuse and criticism around these days.
Comment by Nithya — August 2, 2006 @ 2:39 pm
So good to read at a time like this…
Comment by Uma — August 2, 2006 @ 4:21 pm
What a lovely story! Thank you so much, Uma, for the link. It made my day.
Comment by Shruthi — August 7, 2006 @ 10:17 am