Enlightened

The cool breeze keeps brushing my face as I walk through the empty lane.  As I hear one of rahman’s beautiful composition, I look at the dark sky , twinkling with star and the moon emerging between the tree branches now and then. Thoughts fly through my mind as I go back to relive the moments and look back for what I have realized in the lesson of life.

Sometimes you close your eyes to feel the deepest emotion, to realize how beautiful a composition is, to cherish those moments in the past and much more. But if you are asked to close your eyes and live the rest of the life, I wonder how hard it will be!  You will never know how blessed you are until you encounter a situation that will make you realize it. I experienced it today and hence this post. It was a different day altogether, a different experience altogether.  I had been to the National Association for the Blind with a team of volunteers from my company. The events that followed were really amazing and I realized how much I had been ignorant about people who are differently abled.

I came to know how people overcome their differences from others and emerge successful. Though they cannot see this beautiful world that we can, their world is beautiful in their own way. Except that they cannot see the world, they really live every moment utilizing their other senses to the maximum extent. 

I never knew until today that there was even a training center for differently abled people which train them on various grounds. When one kind of training is targeted at making the educated lot among those people more equipped at what they are capable of and help them work at various places like the sighted society, the other kind of training is targeted at those who are from a rural background in equipping them with various small scale industrial activities.

The information that they get trained in computer courses and get placed in IT field was really new to me. In all, every single minute that I spent today, was worth the time.

On a finishing  note,

“There is no lovelier way to thank God for what you have than to help the people in dark”

A verse that I read. A verse that few people live. A verse I would like to make a part of my life.