| EBU Otsuki Award "The Braille Brought Change Into My Life" Milan Djuric (22, male, Serbia) |
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Killing the time on a boring, rainy, dully day, I was trying to file into two a detonating cap. I found it in an orchard almost next to mine some days ago. I managed to activate it, but alas! Since that moment, I found myself in the world of darkness. I felt a terrible pain; my face and arm were bleeding; the streams of hot blood were running. I was twelve then. But, was totally conscious of what was happening. Then, the years of horror are following one another: eight operations in the country and abroad -- Russia, Belgium -- all of them didn't make any better; the right eye was badly damaged; the left one was totally lost; three fingers on the left hand were amputed. The desire of living the life of my pairs was very strong, but seemed impossible, unachievable, unattainable. how further on? What am I going to do now? The information from the responsible institutions were not encouraging, nobody knew to tell me the ways of participation in teaching process, how to keep on with my education. After ten irreversibly lost years, the doors of a regular life opened ajar. These were the doors of the schoolyard of VeljkoRamadanovicSchool for visually Impaired Pupils in Zemun. When I started learning the Braille, I felt I passed a widely opened doors of the world. At first I was astonished; then I couldn't believe; I was in distrust. I wanted to give it up. What is the use of several inexplicably arranged dots? How am I going to identify these dots with my seven remained fingers? How am I going to cope with their various arrangements? However, it came out very simply, much simpler, than I could ever expect. Just managing the simplest arrangements for letters opened the window of the world of the independence and dignity. The wish and how to be independent were enormously hard, and the marvelous invention, named after Louis Braille was very quickly absolutely overcome. What a pleasure and comfort is to read, write, follow the teaching process , have a hope and the prospective, just as I used to do when I was fully sighted! Suddenly, I wish I could compensate all the missing years, but I haven't got idea where to start from. I have only 24 hours in a day. However, everything is possible and much easier with the Braille, this world of marvelously arranged dots, offering the power of dignity, giving the value and making a personality. The Braille is a day at night, the Sun in darkness, a joy at sadness, and a fortune in an accident to the blind. |
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