The saddest thing in the world, said Helen Keller, is not that some people don't have eyes, but that so many people have eyes but cannot see.
If she had been around, I'd only have asked her whether she didn't agree that there is so much nastiness and commonness in this world that those who can indeed see must start wishing, after a point, that they could stop seeing...
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3 comments:
Dear Sir,
It is true that all of us who can see do not really observe things around us. And Hellen Keller who really did not have the eyes to see felt everything with her touch. She could see from the windows of her heart. This post reminded me of a few lines by Tagore, and I know that this explains all that I want to say. So here it goes..
"Dekhite giyachhi porbotmala, dekhite giyachhi sindhu
dekha hoy nai chokkhu meliya,
ghor hote shudhu dui pa feliya
ekti dhaan er sheesh er upor ekti shishir bindu!"
Sir even this man who had eyes pointed out with his works that we donot use observe. Truly Sir, he was one of a kind. He was so ahead of his times and so modern..and wrote stuff which are relevant even today..I guess eternal..So if each one of us lose our power to see, maybe we shall utilise it in a better way. Thank you Sir for this post.
Thanks for commenting, Anurupa, but you weren't really using your eyes when you read my blogpost: read it slowly and carefully once again!
Sir
Yes Sir, I realise what you were trying to tell me. Maybe I was carried away by the first line itself that made me comment like this. Anyway Sir, regarding the last portion I would rather not comment on whether one must start wishing that they could stop to seeing because firstly, I donot have the eyes myself and secondly it is too serious a subject for me to comment upon. But maybe you are right. Someone like you who has faced so many hardships and seen the real world so closely, would start wishing so. Still Sir, along with those "commonness and nastiness"; you had also seen some beautiful things too..and I am sure you will find a few always...
With regards
Anurupa.
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