Many people should have known about World Day with Disabilities a few days ago that #one in every 100 people is blind.
In a world where you think you're surrounded by able-bodied people, have you ever seen someone with a blind cane?
Have you ever followed everyone's work while they were paying attention to their salary base and so on?
In a modern society where everyone is in a hurry, have you ever paid attention to the blind alley under your feet?
Just recently, a lot of things have brought me into contact with such a special group: the visually impaired.
Note: There are some spoilers below, mind skipping
Akaza Yukiko is a girl with amblyopia who can feel light and shadow, but cannot see objects in the distance, and can only be blurred if she is close.
Every day she walked on the blind path with her white cane to go to school, and one day the bad teenager Kurokawa Morisei with a scar on her face blocked Yukiko's route on the blind path and took her white cane second only to life.
Yukiko subconsciously kicks Kurokawa and thinks the scar on his face is of her own making. The amblyopic Yukiko can only get close to Kurokawa's face, and the story of two young people with different flaws begins.
Each of the following episodes introduces the many problems encountered by poor teenagers and girls with low vision in the process of contact, and introduces the lives of visually impaired groups, triggering the thinking of every anopic and family happy person with witty and humorous love stories.
What does the vision of a visually impaired person look like?
What are the job opportunities for visually impaired people? Massage, restaurant workers and music industry players?
Tools commonly used by visually impaired people, such as specially made magnifying glasses, machines for magnifying text, and white canes that cannot be left.
Are bad boys really bad guys from the start?
Can the mistakes made at a young age be made up for later in life?
This is a story of mutual healing between two people, and the most touching and most triggering thing for me to think about should be this question:
Should visually impaired people feel sorry for the help of strangers?
This is an episode after Yukiko's relationship with Kurokawa.
Yukiko's amblyopic friend Xiaokong and her boyfriend did not find a seat after spending at the drink shop, and the two strangers saw the blind cane in Xiao Empty's hand stand up and give up a seat.
Xiao Kong's "thank you" has not yet been spoken.
The boyfriend preemptively said a lot of "sorry".
After many such experiences of making himself feel unequal, Xiaokong proposed to break up with his boyfriend, but he was "retaliated" by his boyfriend: deliberately putting obstacles when Xiaokong, who loves running, deliberately put obstacles when he was running training!
In the small hollow, running is the only advantage she can take, and she feels inferior and hates all people with normal vision, including her good friend's boyfriend Kurokawa.
Therefore, Yukiko prompted Kurokawa to be a small empty runner, and the two did not find a seat when they were preparing to rest in the park, and the two strangers saw the escort rope and took the initiative to give up their seats.
Xiaokong subconsciously wanted to say "sorry".
Kurokawa preemptively said "thank you."
This is the contrast I feel most deeply, the play is described in flashbacks, and careful viewers can see that Xiaokong's ex-boyfriend and Kurokawa's attitude towards the visually impaired group are different.
It's normal to say thank you when being helped by someone else, because anyone has the potential to help. But saying sorry when you are helped reflects an inferiority complex, as if others have caused a lot of trouble to the other party by helping themselves.
So I would say: equal treatment and respect are more important than mere sympathy.
"Art comes from life", but TV dramas are not life after all. By chance, I came into contact with such a special and wonderful group.
One day, I was lucky enough to meet a few young ladies while hanging out of Jiaotong Baotu, who said that they were preparing a "Sing in the Dark" concert, and they could join the love group with a little help, and then they could participate in the concert on the spot.
I don't know if anyone like me will have a kind of resistance in their hearts when they hear the words "fund a little", which seems to be the bane of such an event as "not being able to help".
Now I'm glad my love wasn't completely worn out, and a few months later, I received the news.
To be honest, before I really reached out to the visually impaired community, I imagined that such a concert would make me cry from the beginning to the end, and I even went to buy an extra pack of paper on the day of the performance, but I only used one in the end.
We went in with blindfolds like this, imitating the visually impaired walking on each other's shoulders, making the usual three-meter distance seem extraordinarily long.
Sing in the dark, listen in the dark
And after we took off the blindfold, we found that the atmosphere was really very happy, they didn't laugh at each other like I thought, and we were the same.
It has been said that if God closes a door for a man, he will open a window for him. Visually impaired people have good (not all) hearing, of course, and learning from an early age in a blind school also makes their musical literacy extremely high.
As I expected, this concert was truly an unprecedented feeling, an audiovisual feast for me who loves music, or an immersive experience that brought its own aura, but I knew that these young people must have put in more effort than ordinary people to reach this level.
For me, this is not just a concert, but also under the multiple pressures and impetuosity of the school recruitment season and graduation season, it has pressed the pause button on my life.
At this moment, I seemed to have found the meaning of life.
"Beauty is born of love" (image has been published with permission)
The integration of beauty and love, jointly initiated by a number of visually impaired elites, focuses on improving the integration environment of the visually impaired and the visually impaired, promoting mutual understanding and exchange, exploring diversified employment paths suitable for the visually impaired, and providing a comprehensive platform for the comprehensive capacity building and social practice of the visually impaired. Since its establishment in March 2017, it has always been committed to tapping the potential of visually impaired people and exploring and developing career possibilities! The development goal of "developing potential, exploring innovation, and enabling visually impaired people to live with dignity" has been gradually established. It has formulated various training programs, paid attention to children with multiple disabilities with multiple disabilities, and held nearly 100 activities such as various social practice activities and growth camps for visually impaired people to help improve comprehensive ability, psychological construction, and return to mainstream society. ——Selected from the "Beauty and Love Fusion" public account
Under this opportunity, I also had in-depth contact with these excellent visually impaired friends.
They told me that their real lives don't depend on blind alleys.
In today's cities, when the phenomenon of indiscriminate occupation of blind roads and blind roads without return is endless, their travel relies on blind canes, sounds and feelings, and it is best to have a leader.
Crossing the road, it is still rare to see a touch traffic light in our country. Visually impaired friends can only judge the direction through the sound of the car, so as to feel the red light or green light.
Touch traffic lights - Baidu Encyclopedia
In Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shanghai and other cities used touch traffic lights, the effect is not very good. Some pedestrians don't use it, some pedestrians cross the road without waiting for the green light to come on, and touch sensing devices are often destroyed. Some citizens reported that the design of the traffic light was defective, which would make it inconvenient for pedestrians to cross the road, and the utilization rate was also very low. The relevant person in charge of the Wuhan Municipal Traffic Management Bureau believes that after the introduction of touch traffic lights in Wuhan, some are not very practical. "They are suitable for installation at some of the less pedestrianized intersections in Europe, in large cities like Wuhan, where there is a lot of traffic and touch traffic lights are less practical." Or to develop our own road system touch traffic lights. ——Selected from Baidu Encyclopedia "Touch Traffic Light"
But they don't consume themselves under negative emotions as I think, and many people go to the song when the world "kisses me bitterly". In this complex society, create your own greater momentum!
I think there's a lot more we can do for them, and there's a lot they can do for us.