[Blind-international-students] I am a blind, but I have a mind.

[Mostafa Al'mahdy]

Hello. Last Friday, I was freshly dining at              a restaurant on the Nile  with some of my truly best friends, And we had an intriguing conversation about what does it feel to be a blind. Mostafa, How does it feel to be a blind?, One of them asked. I slightly     snickered. I'll try to illustrate, I responded. I then began to express my perception of it. For me, Being a blind is to basicly recognize and perceive the world around me, in just a little bit different manner, using some tools and equipments for fascilitation and virtual assistance. Such as my adaptive technology to communicate, to use Braille for literacy, a long white cane for distant traveling, and so on. Sometimes, My closed friends would ask me if there is a surgical treatment that could potentially be the cause of birthing my sight. Hahaha, I usually laugh at that while talking sarcastically about it. I mean, why I should even think about that? I don't really assess it in this way. If there were even a surgical treatment, I wouldn't ever get myself directly into a threatening risk. I have lost my visual sight, But I can still  reutilize my visionary to handel and take care of everything around me. I constantly look optimally at my prospects.  I don't really care that much about attaining a visual sight. Rather of strenuously stretching my brain quite tirelessly  thinking about this, It alternatively would be pretty worthful to attempt achieving your ambitions, while persistently adhering your strengthened courage and commitments. That's in my opinion much better than just yelling over the circumstances, It is perfectly tremendous to have an ambition while furiously striving in gaining it. I' am full of ambitions and brilliant aspirations. I don't consider a sighted individual observation of something as an enough conformation. They sometimes may have got confused, indecisive, or uncertain about whatever they are reporting. I would rather prefer to verify the concerns myself. One of my quite personal doctrinal tennets, that I do not consider a warmly closed sighted companion as my sight, Whether a parent, sibling or spouse. I' am just is my own visual verification, and noone has the right to represent or to speak on my behalf. My father has got upset with me when I exposed this notion to him. I still have the right to independently believe in my sacred seclusion and realm. I have an enormous faith in my sufficient competency. I' am quite confident but, I' definitely am not  arrogant. I so much believe in the proverb that says, Laugh at your life, And it will laugh back at you. I' truly am having this attitude of being liberated and independent in my critical thinking and intellectuality. I' by nature am astubbornly disobedient and challenging individual, I fond being incredibly a  pioneered in establishing a positive thinking manner. Concisely, I have an independent point of view about everything in this life. This life is quite insignificant if someone hasn't got a purpose to attempt achieving. From day first, I was being raised at home on the basis of independence and liberty. Fortunately, I haven't been into any sort of private residential care. I went to an ordinarily public school, And I was educated just unremarkably with my sighted counterparts. My principles of the comprehensive advocacy were growing simultaneously with my mental and physical increments. The most effective pathway of expressing the feeling of being blind, Is to basicly try that up your self. Try to not chiefly rely on your visual recognition. Try to use the rest of your senses to perceive  what surrounds you.
            It doesn't mean to preposterously blindfold your eyes or closing them, while attempting to get around. Because you will eventually end up bumping into stuff, and you may even injur yourself. If you think that what it takes to impressively experience what a blind is like, that would just be quite naive to think so. If you really want to know what a blind is like, and how a blind feels, you've got to live their life. You've got to think of having everything available to you, but at the same time, you're mostly blocked from participating in your social scope, because of the mass prejudiced attitude about you. If you really want to recognize how a blind feels, you may try imagining yourself going to school, graduating with adequately eligible degrees, and then, you're having a hardtime trying to get work, or you're restrictively eliminated into certain professions, that doesn't necessarily meet your field of interest.  and you're mostly be declined, just because of your visual circumstances. If you really want to feel what a blind feels, imagine yourself that you to be on your toes, while dealing with relationship matters. And if you're a blind woman, you will probably be dismissed, even if you're highly educated, absolutely gorgeous, try imagining yourself a definitely beautiful and a respectful blind woman, unmarried for awhile, and sometimes eternally, just because of your visual circumstances, and how sighted males, and even many blind males would treat you unfairly, just because of your visual circumstances, in spite of your obvious womanhood characteristics.
Wouldn't that be terrible enough?
Finally, I have three explicit assertions. The first of them is for the sighted people, the second is for the blind people, and the last one is for a noble individual.
I am not complaining by sending this mass message. I am just expressing to my audience, that if you really want to know what a blind is like, you've got to live their problems, and not just pretending doing care, while playing a silly games, such as dinners in the dark and that stupid stuff.
Now, to the  blind people domestically and abroad. You have to be distinctly dignified. Don't think of yourself as a disabled person, or that you're less than others. If a sighted person offered an unnecessary help, you should thank him, and you should refuse that help politely. Don't try to use your blindness to skip necessary procedures. That would make you feel being a different person, but in a clearly negative way. 
  Eventually, I am writing this honouring and thanking message to Sarah, the brilliant and lovely sighted girl, who is trying to help the blind in Egypt, by pushing the wheels forward, into legislatively advocating for the blind people employment opportunities herein. She is a qualified lawyer, and she probably needs help. So, we got to help her trying to doing what we suppose to do. I would like to get her in touch with blind people who are employed, domestically and abroad, and similarly, with people who worked in the field of the legislative advocacy, for awhile ago. Sarah, we thank you so much, for doing our job, and I will seriously try to help, as much as I could. Mostafa.             
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