So here's what's been going on in the life of Marianne Chan. She's been having fun with friends in school. She's feeling more a part of the class than she's ever been and occasionally, she looks back and sees the many memories that the others have where she is not in them. But she reminds herself she can create newer ones before poly life is over (:
Anyway, enough of the 3rd person typing. So besides school, there's not much else. CYA's pretty fun since the SP peeps come over. Including twin and andrew! HAHA, andrew's like my brother mannn! AWESOME BUDDY (:
Oh, we did DID the other day. Dialogue in the dark. Where we walk around in the dark with a cane and had to feel around and use walls. We had a guide Hafiiz. I went in with Nisha, Caryn, Fiona and Cindy. Supposed to go in with hwee jian and all but ah well (: It was still great fun! Loads of screaming. Heard we're one of the noisiest groups that went in. Everyone kept saying they could hear us XD A few funny things happened in the dark. We kept touching each other, which was hilarious. Caryn squeezed the guide's tigh (PERV!), I banged a wall and someone said the guide was a wall! But the classic one was when Cindy sat on the TABLE at the cafe. And she even asked "WHY THE CHAIR SO HARD ONE?" Epic. It was super fun.
And I guess like what Nisha said on her blog, its US who are missing out. Not them. I'm amazed mostly by how the darkness appears intimidating at first and then there's a certain sort of calmness where you allow your mind to wonder free and paint pictures in your mind. I believe the blind see things so much more vibrantly than we do. It was an eye-opening experience for me. Ironically. I guess that's what they mean by looking into the mind's eye? Haha.
Today during Juliet's class we learnt about physical disabilities. The one thing that kept playing in my mind was how much love the parent has. To see your own child in so much pain, every single day. My heart ached. Especially when I saw the video of the little kid wo couldn't even sit down because of his condition, spina bifida. I mean, imagine a childhood where all you can do is lie flat on your stomach all day long. And those with brittle bones? You cant even run, cant even walk too fast or do anything too rigorous. Imagine living with the fear of fracturing every bone in your body everyday.
What amazed me was how amazingly strong these people were. Strong in mind, strong in spirit. It amazed me at how optimistic they are, how cheerful and how they choose to live life to the fullest, knowing that each day is the last.
And it is true. They are the ones who teach us to truly love, believe and live. We may think we have the upperhand, we're more fortunate but we're wrong. They are probably the ones who are here to make us understand and see things in wider perspectives. In a different way.
All this, is exactly why I want to be in this course. Its exactly why I want to interact with humans and meet people who will be my inspiration to live life to the maximum.
So, dont tell me about how bad your day is any longer. Tell me what you've experienced. What you have done to make it better. For at least we dont live in fear and pain everyday. We're not challenged by everything around us everyday. We're not faced with all sorts of obstacles. Most of all, we're not faced with the denial of society.
And that's just my 2 cents worth on physical disabilities. Its extraordinary.