THE POWER OF VISION

"THE POWER OF VISION" (author unknown)

The birth of a new born baby brings joy to the family. It excites everyone. For the parents, it is a period of thrills and tensions. They hope and try to do their best, and at the same time, they are concerned that something could go wrong. The worse fear of every parent is that something could happen to their child.

That's what happened to the Keller family. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880. Nineteen months later, her parents discovered Helen had become blind in an unexplainable scenario. If it were in another family, this state of things could have been accepted as "fate", but not in the Keller family. Her parents were determined to do the best for their daughter. They found various means to help her communicate. Helen herself was more determined. Helen had a stubborn resolve that she must live a full life. She did not accept her condition as a seal upon her potential. To Helen, the loss of sight is not the loss of life. So far as she could use her other body parts, she would not give up. One time she said, “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

That's exactly what she did. She faced life head-on.

She stood up for herself in many circumstances. She had a teacher, Anne Sullivan, who encouraged her greatly. One day she told the teacher that if she could learn to read and write, she would use all her skills to advocate for people with disabilities and do her best to make the world a better place.

She would eventually attend Radcliffe College of Harvard and graduate as the first blind person to do so. She wrote 12 books during her lifetime, delivered hundreds of speeches, and wrote countless essays. She was involved in many movements, including advocacy for people with disability, world peace, civil rights, etc. In 1903, she wrote her autobiography titled "The Story of My Life."

In 1964, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson for her work in advocacy for people with disabilities. She has been inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame and National Women's Hall of Fame, and in 1980 a stamp was issued depicting her and Anne Sullivan. A special "Helen Keller Day" is celebrated in her honour every June 27.

Think about the fact that a blind person achieved all this. Helen Keller could have accepted her faith, and she would have died unseen, unknown, and unsung.

She said something that lives rent-free in my head “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

If you are reading this, it means you can see. You have sight, but do you have a vision for your life? Do you have something that drives you? Think about that.

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