EFFORT DESTROYS THE OBSTACLES TO SUCCESS (Historical)

“If you have the motivation, you can do incredible things”…..

                                                                                        LOUIS BRAILLE

Louis Braille, French, who was born on January 04^th in 1809; his parents were, Simon Rene Braille and Monique Baron. In his childhood he suffered a minor accident in a saddlery shop where imitating the work of his father, injured his left eye with an awl, a pointed tool for piercing holes in leather or wood (notablesbiographies), and soon after a sympathetic ophthalmia an acute infection of the eyeball or the membrane covering the front of the eyeball (braillebug) led to loss of vision in his right eye; it was the cause he became totally blind.

The little braille with only seven years old began a life with many obstacles; his parents feared that their son for his disability would not achieve his goals in life.

THE SCHOOL

Braille despite of his physical condition he believed in his potential and he wanted to learn many things. He got a scholarship to study at a school for blind people. He was an intelligent guy and everyday he made the effort to get more knowledge even though the school gave a hard learning a discipline.

There, students were taught how to read by feeling raised letters, a system devised by the founder of school Valentin hauy (ideafinder). Despite of the deficient system, because students only could touch the letters but they were not able to reproduce it, Braille developed the habit of reading, and he got a talent for music.

CREATION OF A SYSTEM

In 1821, a captain named Charles Barbier visited the school; Barbier invented a system called “Sonography” or “night writing” which consisted of embossed symbols used by soldiers to communicate silently at night on the battlefield.

This one captured the attention of Braille; and since this day he thought that the system was too hard to learn and had some problems. He started to work on simplifying it.

He developed an ingenious system of reading and writing by means of raised dots (louisbrailleschool) and later, he extended it including notations for mathematics and music.

RECOGNITION OF THE  SYSTEM  AROUND THE WORLD

At age of 17, Louis graduated from school and became a teacher at the institute, and secretly taught his method because the school did not accepted his system; he shared it with his friend, there was a satisfaction about the excellent system, and they began to use it.

After years Louis Braille got tuberculosis, and he died on January 06^th , in 1852 at the age of 43 (access-usa) pleased confident that his mission on earth was completed.

Two years after the death of the inventor, his system was recognized and started to be applied around the world. In 1952, the 100^th anniversary of his death, in his honor, the French government moved his remains to the pantheon in Paris where his body rests with other great French heroes.

Despite of his physical condition, he battled against adversity to achieve his goal. Braille a fighter who leaves a great message; we need to believe that we have the potential to do many things without thinking about the obstacles our life presents, just we need to take into account that to accomplish our dreams requires willingness and confidence in ourselves.

If you want to achieve something do not stop to find how many disabilities you have; it is the moment in which you have the opportunity to see that you can do it.

By: Sara Marroquin