There are situations and moments when a silent approach is highly recommended.
This clearly includes gathering information at night so that you can sleep peacefully with your thirst for knowledge quenched.
This is one of the many cases in which Braille can be really useful, as you will soon discover in today’s little anecdote from Ann-Kathrin Hesse.
Thank you, Ann-Kathrin, for your wonderful example, which so clearly shows how useful Braille is for all of us.
If you don’t want to listen, you have to feel!
Each of us has probably been at the point where we had to go to bed in the evening.
When our parents decided that it was finally bedtime.
Then it was usually better to brush our teeth without complaining
, put on our pajamas, and lie down in bed. If you had had a
particularly good day, you would give both of them a goodnight kiss and
turn toward the wall with your eyes closed. Then your parents would leave the
room, convinced that their child was tired and already
almost in the land of dreams.
When the door closed, I got up, tiptoed to
my shelf, and took down my MP3 player as quietly as possible. It
contained music. I lay back down in bed and turned on the
player. Beautiful melodies caressed my ears. One song caught my attention
. “What were the lyrics?” I listened to the song again. The melody was
beautiful, but I just couldn’t understand the lyrics. After the
fifth time, I’d had enough. I got up again, crept over to my
desk, and turned on my laptop. I turned off the speakers
so that no one would hear me. So I just read with my fingers on
my Braille display. I jumped to Firefox with shortcuts and entered the
song title in the Google search engine. A window opened with
search results and I selected the search result “Show lyrics.” And
there they were, the lyrics. I smiled to myself as I realized
that the lyrics were completely different from what I had understood. Sometimes it’s
better not just to hear, but to read with your hands—that
brings complete certainty and satisfaction!
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