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<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT size=4 face="Cambria Math">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.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT size=4
face="Cambria Math">
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.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT size=4 face="Cambria Math">Wouldn't that be terrible
enough?</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT size=4 face="Cambria Math">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.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT size=4 face="Cambria Math">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.</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT size=4 face="Cambria Math">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. </FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT size=4 face="Cambria Math"> 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. </FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>