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A pledge for anyone who wants to start and tell.
We start… a thing that ll do good and is good.
We hope… to find help and support.
We rejoice… at the inconsequential enthusiasm.
We remind… those who we hoped would walk along, of the cause.
We reason… with them to step up n not back down.
We break… seeing the possibility of achieving some good being destroyed not by the inability within but by the indifference inside.
We do everythin but inspire. And all we have to do is jus that.
Inspire..!!
We have to enter our own minds before we try to get into theirs. What do we do when someone asks us to give something away? What goes on in our minds..? How do we think? What comes out of us even before we begin to think?
Well… it’s a “NO”.
Then starts the thinking… are we doing the right thing… are we going to lose anything? Will it help… will I get credit… will others see it as a good thing? Will it impress people? And a few million questions like these.
But when we come back to the cause… why don’t we think about the apprehensions that people may have or will have?
Religious..personal..parental… concerns or apprehensions… surely they will have. You have to tell them and let them know that its voluntary and serenely satisfying and graciously great.
People are not going to call you at midnight to find out if you are dead if you pledge your eyes… they are not going to remind you that your eyes belong to them… every year. They wont wish you on your birthday with a reminder of your pledge… and certainly they wont be happy that you are nearing your end. They wont even bother. Even if you are no more they wont know until and unless someone of yours tells them that you are no more… and that you are ready to see the world again through your eyes as someone else.
Ask them to close their eyes for five minutes… and do things that they have been doing all their lives taking the single most valuable gift that has been given to them for granted – Vision.
Ask them to close their eyes and forget what they have ever seen and to try to shape… imagine.. and create things in their minds.. say.. thier hands… a loved one’s face.. a color.. a misty morning… an evening… a lake.. a mirror… a reflection… Can they? Isnt it tough? Isnt it scary…? Aren’t we glad we can see? Now try doin that for an hour…a day.. a week .. a month.. a year. Ask them how a life time would feel like that?
We sleep and we wont worry about waking up to a beautiful morning. We will still be able to see the morning light. We dream and we dismiss it as a trivial thing.
Dream….huh…. I guess it means a whole different thing to a person whos not as gifted with the eyes as we are. How do they dream? Are their dreams look the same as ours? We dream what we see right?
But for those who cant see, a night is as good as a day… a dream is as good as the dreadful reality. So whats wrong in giving them a dream… handing them a life full of colors?
At least they wont sigh thinking about wakin up to another dark day… before sleepin every night.
Pledge.
Ask them. Make them understand.
We might not wake up tomorrow… but at least our eyes can wake up to a beautiful sunrise.
I don’t know how to express the meaning the below line holds…
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
Coz there are no words for vision. But then they say a picture speaks a thousand words.
Let us teach the blind to speak… let us help them see.
We hope… to find help and support.
We rejoice… at the inconsequential enthusiasm.
We remind… those who we hoped would walk along, of the cause.
We reason… with them to step up n not back down.
We break… seeing the possibility of achieving some good being destroyed not by the inability within but by the indifference inside.
We do everythin but inspire. And all we have to do is jus that.
Inspire..!!
We have to enter our own minds before we try to get into theirs. What do we do when someone asks us to give something away? What goes on in our minds..? How do we think? What comes out of us even before we begin to think?
Well… it’s a “NO”.
Then starts the thinking… are we doing the right thing… are we going to lose anything? Will it help… will I get credit… will others see it as a good thing? Will it impress people? And a few million questions like these.
But when we come back to the cause… why don’t we think about the apprehensions that people may have or will have?
Religious..personal..parental… concerns or apprehensions… surely they will have. You have to tell them and let them know that its voluntary and serenely satisfying and graciously great.
People are not going to call you at midnight to find out if you are dead if you pledge your eyes… they are not going to remind you that your eyes belong to them… every year. They wont wish you on your birthday with a reminder of your pledge… and certainly they wont be happy that you are nearing your end. They wont even bother. Even if you are no more they wont know until and unless someone of yours tells them that you are no more… and that you are ready to see the world again through your eyes as someone else.
Ask them to close their eyes for five minutes… and do things that they have been doing all their lives taking the single most valuable gift that has been given to them for granted – Vision.
Ask them to close their eyes and forget what they have ever seen and to try to shape… imagine.. and create things in their minds.. say.. thier hands… a loved one’s face.. a color.. a misty morning… an evening… a lake.. a mirror… a reflection… Can they? Isnt it tough? Isnt it scary…? Aren’t we glad we can see? Now try doin that for an hour…a day.. a week .. a month.. a year. Ask them how a life time would feel like that?
We sleep and we wont worry about waking up to a beautiful morning. We will still be able to see the morning light. We dream and we dismiss it as a trivial thing.
Dream….huh…. I guess it means a whole different thing to a person whos not as gifted with the eyes as we are. How do they dream? Are their dreams look the same as ours? We dream what we see right?
But for those who cant see, a night is as good as a day… a dream is as good as the dreadful reality. So whats wrong in giving them a dream… handing them a life full of colors?
At least they wont sigh thinking about wakin up to another dark day… before sleepin every night.
Pledge.
Ask them. Make them understand.
We might not wake up tomorrow… but at least our eyes can wake up to a beautiful sunrise.
I don’t know how to express the meaning the below line holds…
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
Coz there are no words for vision. But then they say a picture speaks a thousand words.
Let us teach the blind to speak… let us help them see.
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