#15 - Someone overcoming odds - Helen Keller

Helen Keller is the represent of this topic, 'someone overcoming odds', for me. She was a deaf, mute, and blind, since she was 4 years old because of the serious illness. She could just give up her life easily, because she was almost seperated from the world with education. It was hard for her at first time to learn for contacting with the world, but she finally did it and became a educator. She could make it, because she understood the patience. she said, "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." It shows that she overcame her disadvantage by being patient and brave. There's also another famous quote from her. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. " She overcame her suffering, but it wasn't all. She spoke to people and spread her encourage, idea, and experience to people who are in hard circumstance like her. She succeed to contact with the world, and she showed the whole world that she who is a deaf, blind, and mute became educator and ecourage many others. I admire her patience to overcome her odds.

MLA : Helen Keller. The story of my life . New York: John Albert Macy, 19o5.