By: Sylvia Davila MM
Bogotá/Copyright
It is always surprising when life displays its cruellest facets on remarkable people. Beethoven deaf, Cervantes lacked an arm. Or on fiction characters Christopher Reeves, Superman, quadriplegic. Or on a stammering man that grew up certain that he would always live under his brother’s shadow, facing the eve of the Second World War where his people was to be on the fire line, and precisely the moment when massive communications were being born, it’s first child, radio. A stammer…
It
seems as if life whished to stress that it is precisely when hard - when it
seems impossible - that human fine tissues surface. Beethoven wrote and
performed the Ninth Symphony absolutely deaf. He wrote it deaf. Cervantes lost
his left arm in battle at Lepanto with the hand left he wrote El Quixote. King
George efforts to speak to his people on the radio made him a symbol of courage
and determination, virtues used by the British to defeat Hitler.
Extremes law. To be up to the challenge it is needed
to stretch. Being so, I guess we should stop worrying about defects and ask
ourselves which one of them serves us well. / March 2/2011 - SILVIA DAVILA MORALES ®
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