Entertainment
All can win
In the walk of life, we come across so many different people at different stages. All of them hold their own sets of goals and aspirations.In the walk of life, we come across so many different people at different stages. All of them hold their own sets of goals and aspirations. And everyone walks with their own baggage of problems and sorrow that weighs them down. Even when there might be friends and family who are ready to help occasionally, at the end of the day it is our individual journey. It is us who have to decide what it is that we want to do with our lives.
It’s all about how one leads the journey. It’s all about how people persevere and work towards attaining their goal.
The other day as I walked past Ratnapark I saw a few blind singers performing on the street. My heart sunk at the sight and even further when I realised how talented they are. These street singers spend long hours out in the sun and rain, singing for people they can’t even see, to make a decent living. And they don’t complain.
Disability might be unfortunate, but disability is never the end of the world. It is so sad to see people treating disability as ‘the end.’
There are quite a number of disabled artists in the world who have risen above their disability to do things that perfectly healthy people have failed to. In Nepal itself, we have artists such as Roma Neupane, Shristi KC, and Jhamak Kumari Ghimire who are ready to take the world by storm with their craft.
Jhamak Kumari Ghimire is a writer born with cerebral palsy. She writes with her foot. If you have had the chance to read her work you’ll see how rich her work is. Her autobiography—Jiwan Kaada ki Phool—even won her a Madan Puraskar.
Shristi KC is the founder of Blind Rocks, an organisation that works towards uplifting the blinds. KC lost her sight while she was still studying in the eighth grade. But, instead of giving up on her life, she instead sat on the driving seat of her life and steered the wheel towards doing things that mattered. In a talk programme she said, “I might have lost my sight, but I have not lost my vision.”
The society told her that she could do nothing. But she proved them wrong. She is an orator, she is a singer, she is a dancer and she is a boss of her own life. We have a negative attitude towards physical impairment in Nepal. We think that if a body part is not working the life of the person is ruined. It’s not about the body, it’s about the intellectual. It’s not about the strength in your limbs, or sight in your eyes, it’s about the courage in your heart and determination in your head.
If we have the right attitude, we can all win.
Dhungel is a +2 student at Pentagon International College