Who's Challenged? and Who's Normal??

Its been three days since I went through a post by name happiness on this blog " http://www.ssidhi.blogspot.com/" The author talks about a special kid and how he felt after meeting him. This story made me put down my feelings here.....

We generally go to meet these special kids (still called mentally challenged or physically challenged, even mentally retarded by most of our well literate friends) and try to show our love and affection to them. (which is by the way only pity by most of us) We cud see how they smile at us and leave us wondering as to even with a difficult life like that they are still smiling with a contended heart……

I have seen many kids like Palani. As the author described, its true that these kids dont know anything. They dont know, when to eat, what to eat, what to wear, how to hold something, how to say something, how to convey a pain and so on. They eat only what is served, they wear only what is chose by the care taker, they do only what someone else plans for them. They have a life but its been taken care (controlled) by someone else. But still, their innocence keeps them delighted with small things. You see them, looking at us and only smiling from their heart….

Imagine, if for a day we have to live a life like any one of them? Just take an example of a person who has a mobility issue, cannot move without a help. Will you and I be able to live like that even for a day?? No..... Absolutely not. You may contradict my thoughts for now. But I guess it is true that we (most of us) will get agitated, we will go crazy in just sometime, we shall lose our patience and even misbehave. But these kids, they are certainly God's favourite. God knew that we, the “so called normal’s” cannot handle a difficult life like theirs and hence he made us, the so called perfect. But he knew that these kids will handle these difficulties well Cos they have got immense tolerance, patience, courage, contentment (with the way things are) and so much of innocence...

We the “so called normal’s” can’t even imagine of living a life like them for a day and they have been living so, for years. WE lack all that they excel (patience, tolerance, courage, contentment (with the way things are) and innocence).
I guess they are far better human beings than us.

And now I know why they smile when we look at them with pity. Probably in their hearts they must be laughing that we the impatient, hasty humans can never be as good as them. Now you tell me, Who’s Challenged and Who’s Normal????