What is your first thought when you see or imagine such a scene?
A beautiful day outside, a moment of recreation and perfect for a walk.
While I was inhaling the scent of nature mixed with the aroma of cold air and enjoying the silence of a forest, considering it is winter, it would be more appropriate to say, the muteness of a forest.
I remember an incident from when I was a student.
Don’t ask me why exactly at that moment? In those circumstances?
Because I don’t know.
Nothing was related to that landscape, maybe just the fact that, like then, I was arm in arm with a girl.
We were on a rather crowded street, it was around lunchtime, and if I remember correctly, we were heading to the university, me and the girl whose arm I was holding.
Walking, we were talking about our things when suddenly, my friend told me:
An old lady passed by us and when she reached our level, she made the sign of the cross and crossed the street. 😊)
I, more amused, said to her, her luck was that she met us near the pedestrian crossing, otherwise she would have put her life in danger, risking to cross in an unmarked area.
A typical response from me, considering that making light of misfortune is my second nature.
But the question still lingers in my mind: what thoughts did we stir in the lady that made her react this way?
And I found a few possible answers:
- She thought we were a gay couple and thus expressed her “Sympathy.” 😊
- We had such angelic, even holy faces, that she had the impulse to pray, 😊 After all, that’s how it’s done in the proximity of the Divine, well, in certain confessions.
- Or she understood that I have a vision problem and my friend is helping me. Making the sign of the cross being a way to show that she prays for the illumination of my days or paths. 😊
The part about crossing the street remains unclear, maybe in a few years, I’ll have some answers for that too. :-))
Until then, in case you didn’t know, now you do.
A blind person navigates and orientates in various ways, such as:
- Using a white cane, with which they identify obstacles, landmarks, etc.
- Using echolocation, a method that, by emitting a sound, can identify and approximate the distance of landmarks, possible obstacles, most often if they are large (buildings, cars, trees, trash cans, etc.). Echolocation complements and facilitates orientation with the white cane.
- Accompanied by someone, in which case the blind person holds onto the arm of their walking partner. This was my situation and what gave rise to this text.
I’ll leave you with the question from the title:
What is your first thought when you see a girl arm in arm with another girl?
And so as not to discriminate,
Or a boy arm in arm with another boy?
Let’s talk in the comments!
