Last night I watched the movie Wonder...Oh my lanta the whole time I had tears flowing down my face either from sadness or from beauty and I wanted to write about the story through my eyes.
1. When Auggie comes home from his first day and breaks down crying because the kids were mean and he says why do I have to look like this? Why am I ugly?
I absolutely lost it because do you wanna know how many times growing up and even still I have posed this question of why? Why do I have to look so different on the outside? Why do I have to go through life like this? Why can't I be normal and like everybody else?
2. He brings up the topic of people staring and admits that if he saw someone like him he would stare to?
Many of you know that staring is something that is a pet peeve of mine because I know I am different but why do you have to constantly stare at me? But then again I like Auggie's perspective because I would probably be curious and stare at a person like me as well...
3. When the principal says "Auggie can't change the way he looks. Maybe we can change the way we see"
Oh my the tears are just flowing down my face even writing this. How beautiful of a perspective is this. I cannot change that I have a physical disability and the way that on the outside I look different but boy do I strive to let others understand and see that I and others like me or Auggie are just like you and that we just want the same things you do. My goal throughout my life has been to get others to see individuals with disabilities for who they are and not for who they are on the outside.
4. It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.”
1. When Auggie comes home from his first day and breaks down crying because the kids were mean and he says why do I have to look like this? Why am I ugly?
I absolutely lost it because do you wanna know how many times growing up and even still I have posed this question of why? Why do I have to look so different on the outside? Why do I have to go through life like this? Why can't I be normal and like everybody else?
2. He brings up the topic of people staring and admits that if he saw someone like him he would stare to?
Many of you know that staring is something that is a pet peeve of mine because I know I am different but why do you have to constantly stare at me? But then again I like Auggie's perspective because I would probably be curious and stare at a person like me as well...
3. When the principal says "Auggie can't change the way he looks. Maybe we can change the way we see"
Oh my the tears are just flowing down my face even writing this. How beautiful of a perspective is this. I cannot change that I have a physical disability and the way that on the outside I look different but boy do I strive to let others understand and see that I and others like me or Auggie are just like you and that we just want the same things you do. My goal throughout my life has been to get others to see individuals with disabilities for who they are and not for who they are on the outside.
4. It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.”
You guys I just can't handle. This Auggie is just taking all my feelings and telling it in this movie. To me, I am just me. An ordinary girl. That is exactly how I feel. To me I am just a normal person. I don't like to remind myself or be reminded of my disability because in the inside I don't even notice that I am different. I have the same wants and desires that you have and just because I look or act a little different does not mean that I am different on the inside. I think thats what I want others to learn the most is to understand that every person out there that has a physical disability is just like you so please treat us like you would treat someone "normal"
& Finally.....
5. Be kind for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
No matter who you come in counter with be kind. This world is hard and there is a lot of rough roads but you know what this world also needs more people who are willing to look past the exterior and love the interior not because they have to but because they want to. You never know by smiling at someone or sending a text to someone you haven't talked to in a while will do. It may just make their really hard day into a beautiful one.
All I know is that if you have not seen the movie Wonder you must go see it because it will give you such good insight into the life of someone with a physical disability and will remind you what really matters in this world.
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