>>> Sunday, March 30, 2008
I hate telling myself "I'll blog after I take my shower, so I'll be more relaxed." Utter rubbish. Plans for blogging promptly get washed away with the soap suds in the toilet, so I'm starting NOW before I conveniently forget.
I actually intended to update earlier this week. We had a funky event where it was an outdoors. Of course, I don't mind outdoor events - I remember the session I had at the Shell Refinery at Pulau Bukom. That was really something. This time round, to be frank, I was a little apprehensive.
We were hosting games for a group of physically challenged individuals.
That was all I was told, and so I went to work, as usual. We got to the location at the Singapore Sports Council and got everything set up. Nice and easy, and then our guests arrived.
What happened in the next few hours totally changed my views on physically challenged people.
I was teaching games, and this particularly attractive woman caught my eye (excuse me, but I'm still a guy LAH!). So I was thinking - wow, she's really nice to be helping out with the handicapped people. I also noticed that she was married, with a shiny diamond ring too. Then I noticed that her right hand was fake.
That absolutely blew my mind away - that everything thing fell into place with a loud clank, just like in novels. Dude, the loud clank exists. Trust me.
I've always thought of physically challenged people and absolutely relying on others for help, and how we must help them as much as possible, that, in my small mind, they were unable to lead a normal life.
She was the absolute anti-thesis of all that I believed about handicapped people. Life-changing event indeed, small it may seem.
Did I also mention that the event was an appreciation dinner for Singapore's Para Athletes, and their achievements at the 2008 ASEAN Para Games in Thailand, which they bagged 3 gold medals, 7 silvers and 3 bronzes?
My deepest respect and appreciation to these people who strive to do their best and beyond. In the words of Captain Jean-Luc Picard when asked on what makes one human:
"We are human, because we aspire."
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