Today, the whole world knows Helen Keller, but few people know Anne Sullivan, helen Keller once said: "If you give me three days of light, the first thing I want to see is my dear teacher...
At a shelter in Boston, there was a girl named Anne Sullivan. The girl's mother died of illness, and her alcoholic father ruthlessly abandoned her and her brother Jimmy and sister Mary.
A few days later, the younger siblings who had been sent to the shelter with her died one after another, a blow that made the little girl almost lose her mind—she went crazy.
As the saying goes, "misfortune is not alone", because of the successive blows, even the only remaining eyesight has left her like a relative. In the face of the dark world, she kept screaming, making strange noises, and trying to kill herself all the time.
Eventually, Anne was judged hopelessly mentally ill and imprisoned in an underground single-room psychiatric ward. When everyone abandons Annie, an old nurse, Laura, takes the initiative to take charge of Annie's treatment. But then again, Laura didn't have any special plans for Annie's treatment, she just stayed by Annie's side and talked to Annie. Although many times there was nothing special to say to Annie, Laura always tried to talk to Anne.
Laura read to Annie and talked to Anne again... Discouraged, Anne, who had been dumbfounded all day, had no response at all.
For Laura's company, Anne has always been "indifferent", giving her snacks, she never knew to eat. However, one day, Laura saw that there was a missing piece of chocolate on the plate, which gave Laura great courage and brought her closer to Annie.
As the days passed, to her surprise, Anne began to respond to Laura little by little through the bars of the single room, occasionally acting like a person whose spirits had returned to normal. Gradually, the frequency of this normal behavior became more and more frequent.
After 2 years, Anne's spirit completely returned to normal. So she began to go to school for the blind, and then she began to study, and her smile returned, and the long-lost smile returned to her face and back to her heart.
Later, Laura died, and apparently, it was a more brutal blow to Anne than to lose any of her loved ones. However, at this time, Anne was no longer the little girl who faced the pain alone.
Because Laura brought Hope to Anne, and more importantly, Laura taught Annie to use the eyes of the heart to overcome all trials. Yes, when Laura left Annie, Anne's heart did not become empty with the departure of the people around her, because the ordinary and great love that Laura gave her has always accompanied her and will always accompany her to face all difficulties and obstacles. Later, Anne graduated with the first place in the school, and thanks to the help of a philanthropist, she had the opportunity to have eye surgery, and the operation was successful.
One day, Anne saw an advertisement in the newspaper: Ask for a governess— for a 7-year-old girl who can't see, listen, or speak.
Anne refused to be retained by many parties, and decided to give the love she received unreservedly to the child named Helen Keller.
"I'm pretty sure that this is love." Anne Sullivan said.
After moving into Helen's house, Anne began to get along with Little Helen Keller, who had been blind, deaf, and incapable of speaking for 9 months after birth, and began to teach her to learn. Just as Laura has always been by her side, Anne has always been with Helen and has accompanied Helen for 48 years.
Obviously, it is extremely difficult to get along with a child like Helen, and it takes 7 years to simply learn the word "water". In Anne, Helen not only learned knowledge, but also learned the meaning of life. Helen entered Harvard University at the age of 20, at this time, Anne was also inseparable, accompanied by Helen into the classroom, for Helen to record lecture notes. Later, Helen received a master's and doctorate, and was fluent in Latin, Greek, and French, and her story gave hope to people with disabilities all over the world.
Anne taught Helen, "Go on what you've already started, and go on what you've failed." When you fail, you also achieve something from it. Even if you don't get what you want to achieve, you'll get something valuable.
Helen Keller was selected by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the 20th century, she brought courage and hope to countless disabled people, Helen Keller said: The most beautiful thing in the world, can not see or touch, rely on the heart to feel! ”
She also once said, "If you give me three days of light, the first thing I want to see is my dear teacher." ”
Yes, without Anne Sullivan, how could Helen Keller have emerged from the darkness and become the great light of mankind to illuminate people's hearts?
Helen is Anne's pride and a miracle in the history of world literature, and Anne is the one who created miracles. The love That Anne gave to Helen was affectionate, but she made this great and magnificent love fall softly like a feather.
She didn't want people to pay too much attention to her and everything she had done for Helen, and she always gave the love she received from Laura as it was, silently and without regret.
Today, the world knows Helen Keller, but few people know Anne Sullivan. She is a person who truly deserves to be remembered, respected and learned.
Great love is boundless and silent, but please do not despise it, because it has always shone on you. Affectionate love, gently landing on the ground, but please don't turn a blind eye, because it is still by your side when you have not found it...
Dear friends, welcome to pay attention to me, I will look at the past and the present with you, taste the taste of life!