“The Story of My Life”

by Helen Keller

Awesome book that will surely motivate you to write your own letter. Here is a woman that is both blind and deaf. Pause and just think about that. She can’t see anything and she can’t hear anything. Spend 30 seconds with your eyes closed and pretend you can’t see or hear anything. Total darkness and silence for the rest of your life. Thanks to Anne Sullivan who had to work so hard and so long to break into that darkness, Helen finally broke out of that kind of hell by understanding that the way Anne Sullivan’s fingers were moving meant “water.” Helen broke through her endless silent night of suffering and learned to communicate with finger gestures. As touch was her only way of communication, she poured her life into reading sign language and reading Braille. Helen eventually learned four different languages; English, French, German and Latin. She graduated from Radcliffe University – the woman’s equivalent of Harvard. She played chess and road bicycles. Yes, it was on the back of tandem bike. She read hundreds of books and she wrote her own biography. If a blind and deaf person can write their autobiography, can you?