Then I went blind Israel today

Today is 6/6, World Blind Day.

A good opportunity to tell that no one prepared me for what happened in my mid-20s.

Every now and then the thought comes to me that if I had known I would stop seeing at some point in life, I would have organized myself differently.

Studying piano in an obsessive and motivated section, because reality has shown that blindness improves something there;

Buying lots of houses (when it was still possible) and becoming a local Yemeni real estate tycoon; maybe studying psychology - two degrees + thesis + doctorate, and slowly evaporating in one of the institutions of higher learning. But no one revealed to me, and I did not dream a prophetic dream, and I insisted on going Reverse to everything mainstream.

There is the cliché of teachers: "A child needs one adult to believe in him", and I say - "a blind person only needs one employer to believe in him".

26 years old, I slowly lost my sight, I tried to calculate a route in the new circumstances.

I was still tormented by the fact that I did not recognize friends on the sidewalk opposite who did not understand why I had stopped saying hello.

Turns myself into all sorts of state-appointed factors to help me reorganize my life and discovers a bunch of people full of pretentiousness and condescension that leave me speechless and desperate every time again, and still continue to carry myself forward and on.

Completes a mid-life matriculation and decorates my resume with a later degree.

I was busy on the beautiful beaches of Bat Yam and the casual jobs of "important kind" teenagers, moving into a rented apartment with my partner and trying to find a job to earn extra wages on a meager and sad disability pension.

Then, in 2004, came a twist in the plot: a strange job ad looking for the blind and visually impaired to be instructors / bartenders in a project called "Dialogue in the Dark."

I got to the interview, passed easily and successfully - because as a blind person I am quite impressive.

Since then, I have taken part in leading the children's museum, and alongside the national team, in shaping the image of one of the most successful exhibitions in the country.

Despite my love and loyalty to hike side roads, I first of all gallop in a strenuous run towards some kind of summit, a high destination.

Breaks walls along the way, arrives and enjoys a small moment, and returns to the sidewalk.

So as mentioned I was accepted, and mentored about a million groups, in love with the audience (to this day), I worked endlessly - morning, noon, evening, weekends, joined every idea, every experience, every UAV, every format, with endless love for this changed place I have the "I" and healed in me a large part of what was injured on the way.

I break the boundaries of the sector and go out to be in charge of a shift (sounds silly but not at all obvious, since the blind and visually impaired only guided in the dark - a kind of axiom that over time melted and became a puddle), and every such stage was acquired by right.

There are no free gifts, every progress has been a healing victory, every opportunity has been snatched away in a powerful embrace, and it all boils down to one moment of accepting the management of the place.

So today I am decorating my resume in "Conducting a Dialogue in the Dark" and hope to continue to be there alongside the people I love so much.

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