In my life ..I like to believe that I never rate anything . There is no such person in your life as a best friend . But several best friends . On Sunday morning , I was woken up from a usual IT professional style more than full day sleep by my thoughts of sharing that day differently with a few friends of mine ..The ones I have yet to meet . I had always felt ..How to put this ..you see I have always felt BLIND . The world was just a perception from one point ..My point . The rest of them , People in my life ,Mothers ,fathers ,prospective girlfriends and auto drivers .. I just could not read their mind . And due to continous exposure to communist thought I was virtually insensitive to people with faith religion and romance . And being blind , I really was not able connect to people .Their sense ..their weird sense of belonging and clingings to the things of the world . I was practically blind to what was happening inside of the combustion chamber of my bike ..As for Tamil Cinema ..I really did wish I was blind and Deaf ! and dead !
To welcome me and to take me to this place was two of the most beautiful woman god made after world war II ,It was Dharmalakshmi and Shiney (I m confused with Shiney , I am sure her name ) They were so very beautiful that they were KIND . and compassionate . A quality which is rarely seen in sleepwalkers that we have in … forget it ..I am blind to people !! Aaahh..Traffic ..the mind numbing traffic . hours ..and hours of crawling took us almost fourty five minutes to reach a five kilometer distance (weak in maths too I am ) Shiney was brilliant ..and kind , strong with numbers (they paid for the bus ticket you see )
Awaiting me was Saravanan , A visually ..lets just say a differently abled man .He was blind to the rays of light which were showing sensation which we interpret as light ..Sight ! But he was able to see ..with his ears . He welcomed me with a warm smile . The one which I had only seen in my dreams about god ! I was at T Nagar . In a school for a reading organised by Sai foundation for My differently abled friends . They were calling me SIR . It was not offending ,yet I felt that I needed and deserved no respect as to call me SIR . I thanked cognizant for banishing the practice of calling our superiors as SIR . It felt so wierd when Sai was asking us all to adress our superiors in organization by their name .But as my association with cognizant grew , I knew that it was instrumental in a barrierless communication without any colonial hangover . I asked him to call me Anna atleast . Brother I was to him . He was very eager to learn . I had only read in books …Abraham lincon .. who studied under the street lights .But that guy atleast had eyes which showed him letters .My dear Abrham lincoln ..He needed a sunday moron like me to help him read what he wanted to study . yet he called me SIR , and Anna .
So many people turned out that day at that place .Beautiful people , briliant , bright and compassionate .They were not beautiful because they resembled Shah rukh Khan or Amrita Arora . They were beautiful because ..when they smiled you could read their love for life .Their struggles . I wished there was a god . I prayed that day for god to exist ,I have been an atheist for the last few years of life , yet that day I prayed that a god existed , I god who loved people .All those people who needed love . You see the physically beautiful people ..they did not need god to love them .Already enough people and Paparazzi love them , But these brothers and sisters of mine .They needed love and a moron like me to read them their lessons .
And they needed not because they were blind , They needed because we , the people who could read with letters seen when reflected by light became a majority .Imagine a world where ninty percent of the people were blind , What would you do if all literature was ..say in braille .No literature or learning in printed papers .Only in Briallle .Then you and I ..I mean those who read this without aid of a reader ..then we would need a person well versed in Braille to help you read their literature to us .
I thanked all very deeply ..For helping me helping them .For making me realise how I was abusing what prescious gift ..god has given us .The eye sight .We always abuse it .By over working , by seeing what is not supposed to be seen .Tamil movies ! Pictures/movies with people in compromising situations .
I also thank three people who came along with me and become my very best friends
DharmaLakshmi
Shiney
Ayyappan
Thank you guys ..Also Saravanan ..who was my Thambi (bro) for that day
Finally All you guys for gracing my words by reading it ! 9003225583 well that is my no. if you are interested in joining me and helping me help yourself ! Any my differently abled friends
Sunday, March 1, 2009
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