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The son of a Pantera buddy of ours is visually impaired. When he showed me how he "reads" emails and text, I was amazed to learn that the visually impaired listen to voice text replayed at a very high speed - so fast that voices sounded like a buzz to me. I could not make out a word of what was being said.

His comment to me was that he often feels sorry for us "regular" people who are impaired in so many ways.

A few years ago I read about how F1 teams had used sophisticated audio devices located around the track to pick up sounds which they used to discover the inner secrets of a competitors' engines.
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I had to share how very fortunate most of us are......

This picture sure makes you think about your personal situations.

It reminds me of when my son was born two and half months early. For almost six weeks he was in a neonatal intensive care unit with quite a few other premature infants. Our son was the smallest baby the day he was born at a little over three pounds - small but overall in good condition and healthy.

The next day an infant was born that weighed less than 1000 grams. He was smaller than the size of a dollar bill, was on a ventilator, and had tons of other problems. At that moment I realized that we were actually very lucky to have a three pound premature kid with very few issues.

I guess what I am saying is that sometimes, not always but sometimes, our “problems” or “issues” may not really be that big of a deal in the whole scheme of things.
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