The 3rd of Dec. is marked the world over as the International Disability Day; Disabled are not disabled, they are differently-abled; Let us pay a tribute to these brilliant, differently-abled people!
Triumph Over Adversity!
Ludwig Van Beethoven,Who gave the world its most beautiful music,
Towards the middle of his life, started going deaf,
His anguish that he poured into his music,
Produced the most lyrical music of his career...
Pierre- Auguste Renoir,
Who painted the most sumptuously delicate nudes,
Started to develop Rheumatoid Arthritis, slowly
crippling his hands to a state when he completely
lost his grip and tied his brushes to his wrists to paint
the most beautiful masterpieces, but never gave up in spirit...
Feodor Dostoyesky,
The most brilliant Russian novelist of nineteenth century,
Who had a deep insight into human psyche, who gave
the world such masterpieces as 'Bothers Karmasov',
Gave the most apt description of epilepsy in his novel 'The Idiot',
Actually suffered himself from epilepsy, he never let his condition
come in the way of his genius, and went on producing masterpieces...
John Milton,
Who gave English literature, its most beautiful poems,
Suffered immensely, when his 'light started to go out',
But, turned his misfortune into an asset and went on to write,
most lyrical poetry of all times, despite his blindness...
Virginia Woolf,
Who gave the world of literature a new genre of writing-
'The stream of consciousness'- who her self had said:
'I write in between my bouts of madness...' actually suffered
from Schizophrenia, and literally used her own hallucinations
to give richness to her characters; her own paranoid delusions
instead of becoming her handicap, became her strength,
giving power and substance to her characters...
Indian painter Satish Gujral,
After undergoing an operation to regain his power of hearing,
Which he had lost in childhood, opted for the world of silence,
as the cacophony of the world of voices became too much
for his sensitive ears, and his artistic brain refused to accept the noises...
Stephen Hawking,
The Einstein of our times, who challenged the theory of relativity,
And went on to prove that light actually can bend, and introduced
the concept of the all-sucking 'Black Holes' in the Universe,
Is all but 'Brain', and nothing else- no arms, no legs, not even his tongue –
nothing in his body works except his brain... and what a brain!
Disabled are not disabled; they are only differently-abled!
Given an opportunity, they will excel and perform better
than most so-called 'able' people; they are especially-abled people,
And need to be treated especially; they are actually exceptional people
And need exceptional attention!
Author: Zoya Zaidi
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright©: Zoya Zaidi
Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2006-12-04 at 17:42
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