According to our faith, we have been sent into this world just like other creatures. The only difference being, we have the most prestigious title. Psychologically, physically and in any other way, we are far better than the species we share our planet with. In fact, one theory goes suggesting that we have been created with a potential to attain further perfection, while the rest of the creatures have been created in the form in which they generally die.
It bestows a huge responsibility then, on the humans to contribute to evolution, perform beyond existing, expand horizons of capability and attain perfection. Interestingly, every moment, every second of the day offers us that opportunity. It is hence our prime role and responsibility in this world to contribute in any way we can.
Most often, we grow up surrounded with humans with similar physical and psychological attributes. As young kids in school, anyone with slow learning ability was an immediate highlight of the class. An outlier. Similarly, any behavioural difference, whatsoever, was automatically pointed out. Such a human's inability to conduct social interactions like others was stereotyped. He was cut out from the "normal groups".
We all grow up in such an environment. Naturally then, schools for special humans sprung up, catering to their special needs in special ways. We, however, the "normal" people keep away. As part of school societies, we then visit such schools/centres as field visits just like to any other visit to research lab or anomaly. Something that is not part of us.
Not matter how hard we try, we remain different. And then, when given the chance to interact and come closer to these Special Humans, we fail. We try hard at knowing how to react and interact. Yet, we fail. We just look at them, blankly covered up in formal, anxious cautious smiles; while they just smile back; unaware of our disability to communicate with them.
God gives us opportunity after opportunity to believe in them and help them attain perfection. In reality, He is giving us an opportunity to attain our own perfection through them. He is giving us an opportunity to know Him through His Special Humans.
And while the humanity is busy discovering His miracles in the normalcy of Life, He hides His astounding Miracles in His Special Humans.
And while we create special schools and places for them, while we isolate ourselves from interacting with them, while we hush them away behind the confines of excuses and walls, They wait. Patiently. For us to Discover the Gifts they have been sent with.
They wait to narrate us the Miracles God has whispered to them. Their Souls wait to help us attain Perfection.
While the activists' community fights every year for their rights, for the adjectives used to describe them, They just smile and continue being who they are. While we delve into making up for our materialistic and apparent shortcomings, They make us realize the Beauty of being and performing as they are and who they are.
Look in their eyes for longer than a moment and it hits us. The Power, the Majesty, the Tales from the Absolute World.
While trying to interact with them, we realize our own disability and disconnect. We realize, it is not them who are disabled. It is us. For they are Special Humans with Special ways of making us connect with Him. We first isolate them to make us forget our own disabilities and then, as disabled people we visit them to feel Human.
They don't need us. We do.
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