A Typical Day…

WARNING:

SOMEONE?! Sorry but this is not a response to the comments/reactions provoked by my former blog…

Last Sunday (3 September 2006), an organization in the Ateneo, held a Family Day at our Vianney Gym. The organization, according to what I heard, assists in the special education for special children. What really struck me were the artworks posted around the covered court. Initially, I thought they were the creations of street children (like what we usually let our students do during our ACIL days in college). But I was more enthralled when I learned that they were done by special children. Looking at some of them as they ran around, I understood what “special children” meant. Yet, I could hardly describe in words what makes them “special” because I am afraid that I too may fall and subscribe to society’s seemingly humiliating and discriminating terms.

Are they special because they are different from us in many ways?  Or are we not the special ones because we consider ourselves normal?  In that hall, who among us was truly considered special?