Carl Jung once said, “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” This applies to many things, alluding that, out of the darkness comes light. One example includes a person we seldom recognize. We forget a girl who had enough courage to reach in and turn on the light to someone else’s life, even when she couldn’t find it in her own life. She was alone, and unguided, yet she still went on to influence the world far more than we even recognize. She gave what was only a wish for her during her childhood: someone to find her and lift her out of the murky world of darkness she …show more content…
Anne always had a sympathetic view towards Keller, probably because of her own near blindness. Keller recalls Sullivan’s steadfast truthfulness in subjects. She would sign as if talking to a fully enabled person and wouldn't let anything stop her. Keller thought back to when she learned about love. At Keller’s asking, she tried to explain what it was. That was the first time Keller was conscious of her own heartbeat thrumming in her chest. “Love is something like the clouds that are in the sky before the sun [comes] out. You cannot touch the clouds, you know, but you feel the rain and you know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it on a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that powers into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.” Eventually Keller learned abstract ideas such as thinking itself or death. And though it took awhile for Keller to use words correctly because she couldn't see the expression or tone, through Sullivans strong dedication, Keller continued to progress. Keller stated that, “a look is often the very soul of what one says.” Sullivan, in her teachings to Helen Keller, understood a child's mind and the love and care it needed. Her “peculiar sympathy” and Keller recalled it, was folded into her genius tactics and loving