Life is a series of chronicle events and happenings and our age is an asset of our belongings, relations and peers. Our routine is very hectic and laborious that we feel even exhausted when we rest back and spread our body on the office chair or our bed.
It feels as we’ve topped a highest peak today, and tomorrow there will be another challenging day waiting for us with a lot of work and boring routine; we never want to keep this thing going with us and wish to get rid of this painstaking routine to enjoy our lives in peace and luxury.
And finally, one day, we go for a long holiday with our family and children, to enjoy, to get relax, to have fun and to release all the tensions we feel in our daily life. This is what a person does to keep life going until the final call.
We feel that God is sometimes unfair with us. Many unanswerable questions come to our minds; why am I not given a lot of riches as others, why am I not blessed with rule like our rulers, why don’t I enjoy the company of my children and family like others. We forget all the blessings He gives us but remember some deficits we bear.
He gives us everything but sometimes He gives us something special, so special that we can’t even imagine – a child with some disability. The moment a couple takes the child in their hands a feeling of insecurity and perplexity comes to their minds.
The fear of merciless world and the ignorance of society make their hearts sink in their chests and a never ending gloomy season starts in their life. After a long and hard struggle some couples muster their courage up and start planning the future of their child while others leave it to God or sometimes in worse conditions; they admit the child as a curse.
Situation becomes worse for the parents who give birth to a child that looks normal apparently, but after a couple of years they get shocking news that there child is facing some mental disorder. They remain unable to understand that why God has given them such a surprise. Believing the doctor is as hard as climbing the Mount Everest. They start searching for a messiah that can bring them out of this intense problem. They roam around their whole circle to find the solution to this problem but all in vain. Finally, they decide to face the problem.
Here, their life is contrary to the life of most of us; the life elaborated above. Here begins a new expedition every day. Life is not the same routine as it was before. In simple words, the parents become special parents for their special child, worried for the kid every moment, caring for his needs every second, looking impatiently for some betterment in the condition.
Losing hope and wining it again becomes the routine of their life; trying to find a way out but disappointment is the only remedy.
Why a special child is only special to his family? Why are we not there to take it as our responsibility? Why we are so scared of this blessing of God? Simply, why can’t we serve an orange with a lot of apples?
Though the solution is not simple but a first step should be taken now. Instead of allocating separate resources for such children we should provide facilities in every school to facilitate these children at grass root level. Instead of collecting ‘oranges’ from different places to polish them at a single factory (special school) we should develop a system that can serve these oranges with a lot of apples in a same unit (formal school); promote inclusive education.
ALI FAROOQ
Lahore
nice Idea
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