Inspiring Story of Helen Keller

Hello everyone, wish you all a pleasant morning I am a Diya Baby student of HolyGrace Academy, Mala. I am before you to speak on an important personality whom I always admire and consider as my hero it is none other than Helen Keller. The reason why I have chosen this personality is my own experience with the difficulties faced by the physically and mentally challenged people in our family and society. Though they have ample potentials and dreams like us yet they are least considered for exposure in the society so I admire Ms Hellen Keller because she was a unique lady who despite her disability, blindness rose above those who had the blessings of site. She was not born blind. At the age nineteen months old, Hellen developed a severe fever which left her deaf and blind. Can we imagine a world where once we had the vision and hearing and later living in complete darkness and even at not knowing how to communicate with anyone around us? It is very difficult to accept right.H ere I find her uniqueness. She was great, a great lady she was a child who had a great determination and interest in learning. So Ann Sullivan was hired to help Hellen to learn letters, how to behave and talk. Ann Sullivan was a great teacher who with her utmost sincerity and love for Helen, taught the word water using a water pump.” walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light, Yes its true in the case of Ann Sullivan. She was a great friend to Helen .she was her life long companion. She had played a great role in Helen’s successful life. Hellen was very determined her accomplishments were going to college and reading and writing brave, she wrote her first book” The story of my life” which was published in 1903. Despite her extremely limiting disabilities she learned through hard work and perseverance.her successful life gives a lesson that appositive attitude and strong determination can win anything. There is nothing impossible if we try for that. Her passionate fight to be heard cements her place among the world’s most empowering heroes. She was truly an extraordinary and courageous lady with inner strength. I salute this great personality for she did not let her sickness, the major obstacle ruins her good spirits or her life. She was very active in participating in numerous organizations that focused on helping other disabled people in different countries. She was even a good orator. In today’s society, people with physical and mental impairments have amazing opportunities to live their life to the fullest. So we have to covert a disability into an opportunity. The human spirit is one of the ability, perseverance, and courage that no disability can steal away. With this, I conclude, with a quote of Hellen Keller “All the world is full of suffering and it is also full of overcoming.”