Welcome to 36th Monday Musings:
Before you start reading this story, just to let you know that It is a true story. If you think you life is tough, think twice, this story will open your eyes . This story inspires me most. This is a story about Helen Keller.
(Helen Keller at Radcliffe College)
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do, that’s how she would have described herself in one of her quotes
Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute. Just imagine a life of person, where one cannot see, hear or talk.
Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind
But just think what memory of world and its object a child of 1 and half year old child will remember throughout her life (None I guess)
Her teacher Ann Sullivan had to take her to a river and put her feet in running water and later, after taking her home, she had to pour a number of buckets of water over her head to make her feel “the thing”. Then she write “WATER” in Braille system in her palm
Just to learn one word she had to struggle so much.
Helen was a genius in a lockup, she struggled but still she mastered thousand of words and wrote several books and travelled all over world inspiring the blind.
At the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities
Despite her disabilities, Helen dared herself to take up a lot of adventures such as horse riding, cycling, swimming and even camping that any other able bodied person would take up. She expressed controversial political thoughts in her essays, went up to the vaudeville stage to demonstrate her first understanding of the word ‘water’ and answer questions fielded by the audience on her struggles, with Anne acting as her interpreter.
Some of her achievements :
· Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles.
· Keller’s first writing was at the age of 11, The frost King (1891)
· Keller appeared in a silent film, Deliverance (1919), which told her story in a melodramatic, allegorical style
· In 1999, Keller was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.
· In 2003, Alabama honored its native daughter on its state quarter
· A preschool for the deaf and hard of hearing in Mysore, India, was originally named after Helen Keller by its founder K. K. Srinivasan.
· On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection
· List goes on………….
Moral of the story :
The story itself is full of inspiration, we must not complain about life, rather we should be thankful to GOD for whatever given to us.
We should never give up and give our best to life
- Life is either a Daring Adventure or Nothing ~ Helen Keller
- Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood ~ Helen Keller
Make it a great Week !
Shailesh
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