When we started developing the website, we read the posts of Rosane regarding Environment & Manking in our orkut community. She reflects the things so nicely that it is understood very easily by all. So, an idea came to our mind to present her knowledge and innovation through blogs by attaching it to our website. In this way, we can help lots of people (that is the mission of our group).

When we sent her a mail discussing this idea, we got a reply in a day. You yourself read her views on writing the blog:

"The peace I have today is different from the peace I’ve dreamed one day.
Only with time, have I learned that peace is to take responsibilities and fulfill them; is to have serenity in the most difficult moments of life.
Today I want to hear and speak words that build. I want to have the courage to cry or to smile whenever I feel like doing it...
I want to accept with humbleness that I don’t know everything, but I want to share the little I know.
I like to remember that nature is so exuberant exactly because the differences it shows in its creatures. Each one of us is special, on Earth, and we have the mission that the Divine Creator has entrusted us.
I want to bring: peace, joy and much news."

Sunday, February 20, 2011

seeing the world through another's eyes

The twins Krista and Tatiana, age 4, have different bodies but share the same brain. And for the surprise of doctors around the world, the girls can see through the eyes of one another and hear the thoughts the same way. This is because part of the brain that sends the physical sensations and motor is the same for both. Since the girls were born conjoined they’ve been receiving medical care. According to the pediatric neurosurgeon that takes care of them, Doug Cochrane, a mate can see what the other sees by receiving the electronic impulses from the retina of the opposite twin.
Last week, during the participation in training, the theme of the meeting was exactly this: Learn to see the world through the eyes of another person. I confess that this is a very, very difficult exercise: put on another one skin…I can say this because I have sought to exercise it whenever I am faced with conflicting situations that requires action; choosing a side.

It is not easy, because we have to take off any remnants of selfishness, putting ourselves in another's place is also a commitment. It is easier to judge, to give our opinion, without, however, even try to understand the reason of the other person. Only thus will you be able to understand and help, whether for love, friendship, respect, solidarity, regardless of the feeling we cherish to each other.
I think that whenever we try to understand the attitudes of others, why certain behaviors, we are faced with another universe. Everybody brings experiences in which make people special and unique. Ours not judge, but understanding will help whenever is possible. Often acting this way, we understand that deep inside we were the ones who needed to change and not otherwise.

Sometimes our hearing without giving any piece of advice helps much more than trying to solve someone else’s problems. Sometimes looking with another’s eyes simply makes us understand that the universe that is represented by someone else is much more complex than we thought.
We live in a world where we should care for each other, where each one of us should be a link to steadily strengthen these experiences, forming a large current. However, we’ve been living quite the opposite (or at least the vast majority) as if each one were self-sufficient and not dependent on anyone for anything.

It looks like a photographic image. It means, to me, I’m looking at it through the eyes of the one who captured it. Interfering in this same image is a way of revealing that I see it too, but with my own eyes, by my own way…


 In this project, we were supposed to see through the eyes of a person who used a wheelchair. how many problems would be faced and how we could improve the life stile of this person by adding attachments in the chair. 

2 comments:

  1. All those in special physical needs, as any human being have the right to education, health, leisure and work as any other citizen.
    More than a government obligation to care for these people is also needed public awareness. Several buildings could provide accessibility to wheelchair users, just by good will. Poorly maintained sidewalks or obstacles such as: boards and tables on them, cars parked, all this is an offense for those in special needs. Before we criticize our leaders we should look to do something for others.
    There is no point inventing in improvements for wheelchairs, if people do not do their part to help and show solidarity. Any technological growth is useful when there is a personal ethic behind it.

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  2. Very well said,I agree with you Scott, while figuring out those improvements for the toy, we also discussed this same topic. Actually, this is the goal of the methodology: To lead students to think about the problems faced by others persons.

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