Have you ever wondered how this unpredictable and juggling life would be without sense organs?
Have you ever imagined how it feels when you are standing in the middle of the crowd and what all you hear is JUST SILENCE? We can sympathize but cannot empathize with those who are devoid of the most beautiful sense of the nature and that is HEARING.
Of course it’s not by choice, but the complicated role of genetics and other scientific factors. The chirping of birds, babbling of water, melody of a song has been something they have been missing and what is left is just SOUNDS OF SILENCE. And with this motive in our mind we must think that “How’d be like if that had happened to us?” Hearing impaired people are not some special kind of class or group of the society who needs a treatment differently from others. Being a social animal even they seek for respect and dignity. And to bring out the best in them, they need someone to inculcate that required confidence to their low spirited soul. Let me quote a story which proves that even they have all the capabilities.
A 24 year old Women Seema was born a hearing impaired and was brought up in a very cooperative and supportive family.
To shine as brilliantly as the star in the night sky, was Seema’s dream. She had the potential and desire of becoming a fashion designer and for this purpose joined the appropriate course, as her family was totally in favor of making their daughter what she wanted to be. The added advantage was that her family was not in any hurry of getting her married unlike the conventional thinking. But as it is said that destiny has its own power over us, Seema was married to a man named Puneet who was also a hearing impaired but what mattered that time was their selfless love for each other. Unlike Seema, he wasn’t educated but still they were happy in their life. At the time of marriage Puneet’s family agreed to the condition that Seema would continue with her studies and job without any obligations. But after marriage when she had to shift to Delhi with Puneet, her mother-in-law never respected her and always took the advantage of her weakness of being a hearing impaired which Seema found very humiliating and disgusting.
She then joined SOS (Sounds of Silence). We have only one point motive of making the lives of hearing impaired worth so that they can live up with dignity and self respect and compete with the contemporary world.
Being an astounding artist she really wishes to pursue her career in Fashion Designing for which she needed to get out of this web of insult and demotivation.
Seema never gave up.
Seema now lives a respectable life and we salute her efforts and courage. Be it a woman or a hearing impaired, they have no right to suppress their desires and wishes.
Seema dared herself to come out of the chain of stereotype and carved a niche for herself. She has started perusing the course in fashion designing, her family ain’t supporting her but her husband is with her but she thinks everyone will be eventually happy for her.
She has made everyone proud and dared to dream big to make her life count.
Visit this link and be a part of the campaign hosted by SOS to help hearing-impaired people come out of their insecurities and help them dare to dream.
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