I watched this most wonderful video on You tube last night. I love You Tube, I've been learning all sorts of cool ways for making things better in your life, like putting plastic wrap over the ends of bananas because it keeps in the air and they last a much longer time and it's true, it really does keep them fresh for about four days longer than normal!
Anyway, it was a short video about a young Chinese girl who had become blind because of a stupid mistake in medication by a stupid doctor. She became very depressed, withdrawn and isolated herself because things like that have a pronounced degree of shame and fear attached to them in her country. She had one friend who was also blind but this friend had a sister who knew a young man just about this young girls age who was deaf and mute. At first they didn't want to meet because they thought there would be no way for them to communicate, but they got together anyway and were doing sort of OK even though they really couldn't quite understand each other. Then someone they knew, (I don't remember who - doesn't matter) told them about a company called "Care Line". What they do is hook up people with these sorts of impairments by giving the sighted, but deaf and mute person a phone that can send a text message to the blind person that will be received with voice. The blind person can then send a voice message to the deaf and mute person that will be received as text. How cool is that?!
And then....they fell in Love.
The companies motto is "Communication pierces a hole in the darkness and lets a little light in."
How very true.
You know what? I do not like bananas. No, I do not. They make me gag. But I will past this information to my husband.
ReplyDeleteI hope that little girl thrives.
What? I never heard such a thing! How can you possibly eat yogurt then??
DeleteThat makes me gag too. I can eat plain Greek inn a smoothie.
DeleteI eat a couple of spoonfuls - straight in the morning - I do this because I am like a pregnant woman having morning sickness, every morning!! (it does the trick, it's probably low blood sugar?) I f-o-r-c-e myself, other wise I need a banana in order to eat yogurt. You are lucky you can eat smoothies, they make me gag. hahaha
DeleteI love this story. I was feeling a bit down this morning, and reading this gave me hope.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the banana tip. Things go bad so quickly here in Florida, I find myself buying only 2 bananas at a time. I'll give this a try and see if it helps slow down the inevitable.
Glad that brought you up a bit.
DeleteOh my goodness. That modern day love story got me all choked up.
ReplyDeleteBananas are my favorite food! Between me and the kids we can't keep them in the house long enough for them to even think about going bad :)
Hello!!! As always I've missed you ♥
DeleteThank God lovely little things like that happen out there.
We buy them with good intentions and then say...Why isn't anybody eating the bananas??
Beautiful story about human resilience.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from London.
Can't help but bring a smile to your face.
DeleteGreetings from Oregon.
That IS cool. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI love! stories like this. Gotta find more.
ReplyDeletehow wonderful. wouldn't it be nice if that was the way of the world, helping instead of hating.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Ellen - indeed.
DeleteIt's funny, because I read your story a few days before a Tory MP here asked for the hundreds of refugee children Britain is allowing in, to "have their teeth checked so as to ensure they are not adults". Embarrassing stuff.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from London.
I couldn't think that up if you were going to give me money - ludicrous.
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