|| Humanity’s reflection ||

Look at the water and you find the wavering ripples that give your blurry reflection. Look at the mirror that gives your absolute reflection. Both reflect the persona that veils the emotions through your eyes. If you watch only what is visible to the eye then that is all you would ever see but if you watch to understand the meaning that resides behind then you would be able to feel all the emotions that lie beyond those eyes of deception.

Look at the world as it appears a crust of spherical mass with earth and water. But now look at the world as an entity, a being with tiny secrets to hide behind its smile- with pain and pleasure that embodies its emotions. The world with all those pieces can only be seen when we try to understand them. For when we do, it becomes grandeur of beauty only seen through the eyes of kindness.

I often forget that it is not the appearance that makes humanity but the power of understanding, accepting, and forgiving that truly marks one’s humaneness. You can be lost in complexities that seem undeniably hard to understand but when you understand them, it makes them worth the risk. You can be lost in not accepting the changes that befall your trails but when you learn to embrace them and accept them, you realize the beauty behind them. You can be lost in your anger to not forgive but when you do forgive those mistakes, you learn to let go of all that anger.

In your ability to understand complexities, your acceptance of changes, and the forgiveness of all the mistakes make you human. In those emotions, you find all the secrets to liberating all judgments that shroud your vision of a beautiful world.

Problems are everywhere; all they ever require is to be heard. Problems like “Disability” have complexities to be understood, incapabilities that need to be accepted and mishaps to be forgiven.
Their life is complicated as they have things they can understand and things that they cannot understand and in that confusion of understanding life, they forget what is right and what is wrong because they came into this world unknown but you can make sure that they are not alone.

Changes surround their life and that causes them to doubt their own existence as they don’t know how to live without the complication of their own life. In those complications, they close up from the world and the chance of what they could have become. They deny those changes themselves because the people around them don’t accept them, and when people accept those changes then that action brings out the true reason that remains inside the ones we call “Disabled”.

Everyone makes mistakes and when the time comes they learn to forgive them. In that way, we need to learn to forgive the mistakes of those that try to live. It is hard for people to forgive but when you hear the story from the other side, you learn that the ones that need forgiveness live in the same pain that you do. So forgive all the mistakes they make in not being able to cope with life, forgive them for not being able to live like you.
“Disability” isn’t a problem but it is the motive that forces people to remember the qualities that make them humane. To tell them that it is okay when the moments seem too much to handle in our pursuit to understand them, to pull them up and accept them when their own incapability drags them down, and to forgive them when they make mistakes in trying to face life.

You are human, I am human, we all are human but being human is easier said than done because when we say “Human” it means to understand even when things seem unexplainable, to accept even when things are too different to accept and to forgive even when the mistake is hard to forgive.

To understand is to accept and to accept is to forgive and to forgive is to be human even when things seem uncertain.
-Sangay Loday (Bhutan)