Today, I got an opportunity to read for visually challenged students. I felt happy to see many volunteers who came to help them. Our role is to read or write the subjects for the students. I am new there today but i heard its happening for years and on every Sunday. If you like to help them just contact
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan School
5th Cross Street, Nungambakkam, Chennai.
Well, i just want to talk about my experience there. It was an awesome feel, not only from helping them but also learning a lot from them. Yes, i did go there to read for them, but it was me who learnt the different perspectives of life from them. They never feel that they are visually challenged but they just challenge their visual perception, also they don't feel it us a burden. They just don't have vision, they just lack in a gift by The Almighty, but they are gifted with concentration, confidence, memory, talent, hope and many more good qualities. One of my friend said that they don't have an option of distraction. Yes, when i read ,my eyes go around 360' often - distraction for me, but they just concentrate and hear to what i read. They an advantage out of their problem. I feel there is always an advantage hiding in the problems we do face, we need to search for it to survive.
also,
Shankar.K, the guy who gave me an opportunity to help him shared his feel with me. He can't see from birth, and his brother too. His younger brother is mentally challenged. The reason behind was that their parents are blood relatives. We do know the marriage between two close blood relatives is not advisable scientifically/medically. Their kids will face problem like Shankar and his siblings. So please do advice ur neighbors or relatives or friends, if they plan for this kinda marriage unknowingly. Friends, please do post ur comments and links about the problem Shankar is facing, if u know. It would be helpful to know more about the problem in marriage between two close blood relatives.
love,
danny.
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan School
5th Cross Street, Nungambakkam, Chennai.
Well, i just want to talk about my experience there. It was an awesome feel, not only from helping them but also learning a lot from them. Yes, i did go there to read for them, but it was me who learnt the different perspectives of life from them. They never feel that they are visually challenged but they just challenge their visual perception, also they don't feel it us a burden. They just don't have vision, they just lack in a gift by The Almighty, but they are gifted with concentration, confidence, memory, talent, hope and many more good qualities. One of my friend said that they don't have an option of distraction. Yes, when i read ,my eyes go around 360' often - distraction for me, but they just concentrate and hear to what i read. They an advantage out of their problem. I feel there is always an advantage hiding in the problems we do face, we need to search for it to survive.
also,
Shankar.K, the guy who gave me an opportunity to help him shared his feel with me. He can't see from birth, and his brother too. His younger brother is mentally challenged. The reason behind was that their parents are blood relatives. We do know the marriage between two close blood relatives is not advisable scientifically/medically. Their kids will face problem like Shankar and his siblings. So please do advice ur neighbors or relatives or friends, if they plan for this kinda marriage unknowingly. Friends, please do post ur comments and links about the problem Shankar is facing, if u know. It would be helpful to know more about the problem in marriage between two close blood relatives.
love,
danny.
4 comments:
it is difficult for those who constantly live in world of visuals and visual art, to realize the absence of all of it....
hey!! it was me who said that the visually challenged people have a better chance at concentration!!
it was fun to read it as if it was someone else!!
and i remember you telling me the ill-effect of blood relation marriage....
hm, about in-blood marriages, i dont claim to know much. but in many Maharashtiya families they traditionally wed their girls with paternal cousin. That is, son of paternal aunt of a girl can marry that girl. (this English language doesn't have words for relations properly!)
But for keeping the bloodline intact many families of higher casts preferred these marriages, and there were no genetic problems that evolved, at least in immediate progeny. but marriages in maternal blood line of the girl are very rare, and considered taboo. In those cases many genetic deformities came into existence in immediate progeny. for whatever reasons, marrying the girl into maternal family or to fathers brothers son is totally nono.
One more historic fact, did you know?
In ancient Rome and even in Egypt, the royal family did not create a matrimonial relation with any other family, to protect the "royal blood" from meddling!
they married their own brothers and sisters.... yes, siblings!! and then they were throned as the king and queen.... sounds very yukk...but madness for purity of bloodline can go to that extreme. No wonder their empires and civilizations fled in time....
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