Today, I want to talk on the most difficult subject.

Accepting a person for who they are rather than whom you want to be.

Today the worlds population is 7.9 billion, which means there are 7.9 billion different brains out-there. Each and everyone is different with different jobs, ideals, morals. Even if you belong to the same genetic makeup as your family, there are n number of traits which you may have that are completely different from them. So why does the world constantly seek 'Normal?' which is nothing but widely acceptable. The world can accept most horrible of things but it just can't accept difference. Even if it is constantly there in everyone of us, change even wanting something.

At times we meet people who have a different way of speaking or behaving or just anything. Unless it makes us uncomfortable but that's our problem.

The Silent Child is a short film about a girl who was born deaf in a normal hearing family and a women who wishes to help this child communicate.

Flashback from The Accountant!!! The problem with society is that whatever the child lacks they just wants to fix it.

Imagine someone being born without any limbs. Life is surely difficult for them. But not if you make it extremely difficult by refusing to understand what the person needs.

Now a days technology has advanced and I wish the human mind would do the same. When someone lacks like the movie per say. She cannot speak that is there as her normal, to counteract with that the friendly helper whom the family hires for her to communicate.

The total meaning behind why the women is there is lost on the mother who just wants her child to be fixed "to be normal". Its like saying sending a quadriplegic to run a marathon with no tools to help them. As one can see it, being different has their deficits but if received the right kind of help then one can triumph.

Imagine if you are hear nothing from birth. You look at the things around you but sounds are completely absent. We learn most things through our senses, while growing up our surroundings help us develop. People even in the same region will be brought up differently. So if you wake up and grow into a persons body who's life is made difficult by just throwing in expectations that they should go back to their birth and grow ears.

Is it fair!??! Everyone deserves to be loved in a way that one accepts who that person is, meaning if a person has a stutter problem rather than mocking understanding the discomfort of the person. Understanding that struggle and realising this is their normal.

If you live a normal life and complain about it. You are living a life of privilege. When you have food to eat, shelter over your head, clothes to keep you warm no matter what the season. Life isn't so fortunate to those.

If anyone recalls watching Gattaca, the boy who grew into the man suffered from same ill thoughts from his family. In this film it is the grandmother. She thinks teaching a deaf child is a waste of time as she will be no better than a cleaner.

When I see such people like that, patronising kind who speak ill of those who are hardly getting by. The family has no understanding of suffering. The only person who suffers is Libby. Her brother does recognise and try to learn sign language to communicate with her.

How hard is it to accept a situation for what it is rather than what you want it to be? The refusal of acceptance is not only harming you as it becomes a chronic thinking but also for the person who is being rejected for being themselves.

Love should be kind. If you cannot accept the person for what they are maybe you shouldn't make important decisions for them. A rejection to such an early age from parents is like a huge negative impact on the child.

I remember watching Meet the Robinsons where the orphan child wanted belonging. The couples who came didn't want to have him for his scientific brilliance which wasn't in their understanding. When he does meet his people though they are nothing but accepting, different and loving.

Movies aside, we are different and when our difference cannot be altered or manipulated why not just embrace it.

Every different person is special in their own way. Libby cannot speak but she observes and can read lips. I don't think I can do that even as an adult. If you are suffering from some deficits, always remember you will always be compensated with a super power which no one else has, so believe in it. Accept yourself and if others don't accept you. It's your own acceptance that really matters.

I also want to say this for education system. People deem such people who suffer as special but this is a vast field. Every school should have the system of understanding no matter child suffers from being able to counteract and help child develop in their environment. Making them feel part of the community rather than categorising them as abnormal.

Here, enjoy this beautiful film. I do not own this. This is just sharing out of love for cinema.

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