A sightless vision...
Friday, December 01, 2006
After having my dinner I usually go for a small walk (though a bandaged foot has broken that routine for a month now). One evening am just strolling back to my hostel and as I am about to cross the road towards it, the shouts on my left catch my attention. It's a group of three guys holding each other and getting ready to cross the road, all in giggles. It doesn't take much to register that these guys are blind and hence they are trying to have a consensus, as to when do they cross the road. There is a hostel for blind people nearby, hence I had an idea where these guys were headed to. I reach them to offer my help, only to realize that they have a consensus to run NOW to the other side, so I just follow them, getting a chance to hear their conversation.What I hear strikes me at heart.
They could not see images but they could judge the intensity of light so had based their judgement on that only. So the decision point for them was to cross when there was almost no intensity, along with sonic judgement of course. One of them lost the sight only few years back and he was bridging the two worlds connecting the two experiences for others understanding.
They could not see images but they could judge the intensity of light so had based their judgement on that only. So the decision point for them was to cross when there was almost no intensity, along with sonic judgement of course. One of them lost the sight only few years back and he was bridging the two worlds connecting the two experiences for others understanding.By then a car is on its way towards us, as it reaches few yards, my friends realize that some vehicle is coming towards based in increasing intensity. So they suddenly run for the road and so do I, car is really fast.
Had they not gauged it likewise, it would never had occurred to driver that its not the mistake of these guys that they aren't leaving the road, but he would have run over them, so typical of an average Delhi driver! Had he thought later about his mindless rash driving? or had he just not cared, again a behavior so typical of Delhites?!
I look at these bunch of guys and think of Darwin, only fittest survive, and go back on my hypothesis, the nature not just picks fit bodies but fit and agile minds too. That does explain how us human's thought process is so complex, isn't it?
posted by Jas @ 3:04 PM,
