"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".
These are the words of a person in great profile. An American author,
activist and lecturer who born deaf
and blind. That is Hellen Keller.
She says that, if, by some miracle, i were granted three
seeing days, to be followed by a relapse into darkness, i should divide the
period into three parts.
On her first day
She want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth living.
On her first day
She want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth living.
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· She would like to gaze long upon the face of her dear teacher, mrs. Anne sullivan macy, who came to her when she was a child and opened the outer world to her. And to study that face and find in it the living evidence of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the difficult task of her education.
· She want to see into the heart of a friend through that "window of the soul," the eye. She can only "see" through her fingertips the outline of a face.
· Then she should let her eyes rest, too, on the face of a baby, so that she could catch a vision of the eager, innocent beauty which precedes the individual's consciousness of the conflicts which life develops.
· And she like to look into the loyal, trusting eyes of my dogs -- the grave, canny little scottie, darkie, and the stalwart, understanding great dane, helga, whose warm, tender, and playful friendships are so comforting to her.
· she also want view the small simple things of her home. She want to see the warm colours in the rugs under her feet, the pictures on the walls.
· Then lastly she should take a long walk in the woods and intoxicate my eyes on the beauties of the world of nature.
On the second day
1. she want to arise with the dawn and see the thrilling miracle by which night is transformed into day. She behold with awe the magnificent panorama of light with which the sun awakens the sleeping earth.
2. She want to see the pageant of man's progress, the kaleidoscope of the ages. Through the museums.
3. She longed to see with my eyes the condensed history of the earth and its inhabitants displayed there -- animals and the races of men pictured in their native environment; gigantic carcasses of dinosaurs.
4. Then her next stop would be the metropolitan museum of art, for just as the museum of natural history reveals the material aspects of the world, so does the metropolitan show the myriad facets of the human spirit.
5. She should try to probe into the soul of man through his art. The things i knew through touch i should now see.
6. She should look deep into the canvases of Raphael, Leonardo da vinci, titian, Rembrandt. I should want to feast my eyes upon the warm colors of Veronese, study the mysteries of El Greco, and catch a new vision of nature from Corot. Oh, there is so much rich meaning and beauty in the art of the ages for you who have eyes to see.
7. The evening of her second day of sight she should spend at a theater or at the movies. Even now she often attend theatrical performances of all sorts, but the action of the play must be spelled into her hand by a companion.
The last day
1. She must start from her home in the quiet little suburb of forest hills, long island. Here, surrounded by green lawns, trees, and flowers, are neat little houses, happy with the voices and movements of wives and children, havens of peaceful rest for men who toil in the city.
2. Then begin her rounds of the city. First, he want to stand at a busy corner, merely looking at people, trying by sight of them to understand something of their lives.
3. She want make a tour of the city -- to park avenue, to the slums, to factories, to parks where children play. Then she should take a stay-at-home trip abroad by visiting the foreign quarters.
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