Open Doors

This story begins about a journalist named Abigail from a Salvadorian Radio. She was born blind; the beginning of her life was difficult because her future seemed to be unknown. But for her intelligent she became in a triumphant person; she was best know when her interviews public figures specially politicians. She had no patience with any attempts when someone tries to hide the truth. Abigail knew better than most people how to listen to the human voice. She couldn’t see all the little tricks people sometimes used with body language and the expressions on their faces to give false ideas. She only could hear what they said. It was almost impossible for the people she interviewed to hide the tiny changes in their voices that show what they really though. No matter how hard they tried to cover it up, she could always tell when a person lied.

One day she received an opportunity to work in TV studio and recover the sight. The manager of station wanted to hire her because she was so popular that he though she would be good for his talk show. He persuaded her offering good salary and the expenses to the surgery. An excellent doctor was in charge to make the operation. Abigail was scared because nobody knew exactly if that would be possible. She wanted to see, so she decided to take the offer. Definitely her dream come truth. She could see.

When she started to work on television, she couldn’t perform very well her new job. Her skills as interviewer weren’t the same. Her sight made her forget to listen. Abigail couldn’t question like she used to do it. For that unforeseen situation, she decided to quit and came back to her old work place, but this time she had all benefits that the TV station offered her one time. Now Abigail usually takes a black scarf to tie around her head to cover her eyes throughout the interview. She was back!

Sometimes what we call incapacity like blindness, deafness, mute or other that a person has, result the best weapon to succeed. Perseverance, humble, being risk taker, autonomy, hard working, etc are the aspect that we need to grow up so all the doors will always be open for us. We do not allow something stops our dreams; we have to persevere to reach our goals.