ETCH THROUGH THE BRAIN

I am writing this blog based on my experience during my visit to a school for visually challenged students. To be frank while going I had no greater interest than spending some time with the kids of this nature. But while leaving the school i am addled to the bottom of my heart. Not because I found them pity, but the other way round. I found the other section of the society handicapped. Strange, but true. I found myself handicapped amidst the level of synchronization that these kids have shown.

I went there with couple of my friends who are regular visitors of this place. And the kids are very familiar to them. They just touch your hand and say who you are. Each kid is a maverick there with their unique expertise. One kid, hardly 4 to 5 years old, gave me the shock of life time by chanting the movie dialogues of aged movies. Not just dialogues, with the perfect voice modulation of that particular movie character. I was totally bowled over by this kid’s ability to remember those complex dialogues of the movie, that he just LISTENED to. I SAW the movie thrice, I know the characters, I can recognise them if I face them on the road, and I am 27. But still I just can’t do that. He even remembers the commercial breaks of the movie played on the TV. Now tell me what should I call this kid? Is he not the prodigy of our motherland? He is just not he only special kid there. Every one of them actually made me to feel ashamed of myself.

I should tell you one more incident which just made me go agape. There were a group of these kids playing cricket. With a specially designed ball which makes sound while it is in action. Apart from that it’s the normal cricket game. Being a diehard fan of the game, I went to WATCH it. I had to double my eyes to realize the level of synchronization that they have displayed. And the game played was so damn ferocious. It just can’t be expressed in words. They can bowl better than us. They can bat better than us. They can field better than us. And they can also hit the stumps without fail….Only based on the sounds…not only the sound of the ball, but also the sound of the wind it carries with it. The game was at its best and I envied every bit of it on the above ground axis. I somehow felt that I am the odd man in the middle with more equipment and less potential.

Many a times I am surprised and admired by the mechanics of human body and the design of it. It’s a perfect machine. We just don’t realise the power of it. Sometimes we do it with curiosity but most of the times it comes with necessity. As we all know “Necessity is the mother of Invention” but surprisingly "Necessity is also the mother of Discovery".

It is indeed the necessity which drove these kids to be that special. You and me are also gifted with these abilities. But we do not have the necessity in other words we don’t have the opportunity to realise(discover) the ability of the organs that we are born with. Hence we do underutilize them. So we function at a lesser risk basis so we enjoy a lesser return from the organ….and the sad part is we are HAPPY with it. But these kids play them at an elevated level. Hence they get an equal amount of output with the limited organs which we are yielding with all the organs. Is it not simply great?

All I want to say is, with all the organs alive and functioning, we should be thankful to the almighty for making us to be so luxurious. Failing to realise this, we all crib about many a things….that we are not rich, we don’t get to watch a good movie, we don’t have an LCD TV, we are deprived of fancy cars….what not? Dear realise what you have before starting about what you don’t.