Repost: What We See is Not What We Always Get
What We see is Not What We Always Get
3rd August 2013
A Refection on the film Every Child is Special. 

To Perceive beyond what your eyes can see, it means to say a certain thing, that every child is special.

If there is a very young child who cannot perform well in school and is not able to compete in academics with the other children of this age, will that be enough to declare that he is as an idiot? Considering how the society defined excellence, does learning grammar or mathematics in a slower manner as compared to an "average" child indicate that he is incompetent? Is there no other way to understand the reasons why do things occur? Cannot we view art in the world of science and vice versa? Is not knowledge integrated that limits on how we find solutions in a problem are infinite?  Let us not get fixated on the standards about what we have to do, it must be ourselves who set standard, by that, we can be subjective and look at things in different perspectives.

Life is neither just about school nor about our jobs, not solely protocols nor creativity. To truly live is to enjoy and maintain balance in every aspect of it. There are geniuses who did not finish school and, at the same time, there are still foolish " experts" even after obtaining their post graduate degrees.
Only if we consider that everyone has a gift, everyone is capable to excel in his own way, it is the time that what we believe in will prevail.

I like this piece of writing because of the way it engages with the reader. The change of perspective from 'your' to 'his' to 'we' (2nd person to 3rd person to 1st person) guides the reader into taking the opinion of the writer, as it takes the reader through the writers opinion by making them feel as if they are belonging in that group. The starting use of 'your' gives the sense of loneliness as it is just yours, but then is shows 'he' also agrees with you, and at the end its actually 'we', and 'we' are all together for this. The rhetorical questions are also effective as they make the reader think without having to guide them completely, as they are biased questions, starting with 'Cannot we view...' and 'Is not knowledge...' they lean the reader into making a decision without having to add extra detail to make the piece long. The shortness of the piece makes it easier to stay involved, as the piece is packed with questions and opinionated facts, the length of the piece is a good length as it is not too long and dreary, or too short and not have an effect.