monday december 12 2011
i read in the newspaper recently about a 16 year old boy who had a job in an office. everything that needed to do was laid out before him carefully for him to execute the job. the job was monotonous and straightforward; nevertheless it was quite an important task to ensure the smooth-running of the office.
his mother then mentioned he has an IQ of a 3 or a 4 year old. he has autism.
i saw a blind man walking on the pavement next to the highway on my way home last saturday.
i saw on the news about blind students being successful in university yesterday. one girl said, "we need to educate ourselves so that people won't look down on us. even being here(able to enter university) there are still people who look down upon people like us."
another guy said, "everyone has the same hardship when it comes to studying. we are no different from people who can see."
i have a job. i know at this point my job is boring, that i can do it blindfolded, i thought i knew everything there is to know about this job. but that doesn't give me license to not try my best to do the things that i already know how to do. doesn't mean that i can say i am bored and then do other things without even trying to make the current things better. i feel like i owe it to these people to be a better person because i don't have what they have. what i have is more than enough, i don't know what else i should be asking for. don't i have enough? what else do i need? haven't God already gave me a lot?