One day, while I was sitting at the bus stop waiting for the bus, two girls were just simply walking, but one of them was using crutches, I thought at first she had a broken leg and was going to the near hospital for checking, but when I looked again I found… there is no leg at all!... The image is: a young lady with one leg, was having a nice walk with her friend, talking and laughing, smiling the other times, and carrying a big guitar on her back!... she’s also an artist, a musician!... I couldn't stop looking at her, not to her missed leg, but to her face, to her smile, to her laughter, to the light in her eyes, to how she was shining so bright, I looked at her with a big smile on my face and tears of happiness in my eyes, and the only thought I could have in my mind: “How beautiful she is!”… yes she’s so beautiful, because I could see her beautiful spirit, because of her smile, because of how she ignores the whole world around her and what they might say or how they might look at her, she was painting her own world with her smile and that big guitar on her back!... Who could say it’s ‘disability’?... disability is in the mind not in the body, and that girl owns the world with her spirit and smile, teaches life, courage, self-confidence, and happiness... Allah bless her.
A colleague asked me once: “What is happiness?”… I thought for seconds and said: “Happiness is being satisfied with everything that Allah has given you, or has taken from you”… that’s it.
With all my love…
Randa