Life struggle

His name is Eko Ramaditya Adikara. He is a blogger, writer,
journalists, and also music composer games. Jobs that seem
ordinary. Because after all many people are doing the same thing.
Being unusual, because Rama, as her nickname calls her,
doing all his work in a blind state. Rama is a man
blind. In his blog, he calls himself the Indonesian
blind blogger. Rama is able to write articles on a keyboard
computer sixty words per minute. Ability equivalent to
professional typing skills. So how do Rama
can read a message or text on the screen? With
technological progress is increasingly sophisticated, Rama can read the text on
monitor screen by using a named screen reader application
JAWS. With the software, Rama can hear that voice
issued. The software changes the text to sound or
text to auto speech. If Rama wants to read a book, Rama will
scan or scan the page by book
, then converted into text form. Rama was born
blind from birth. His handicap did not stop him
keep doing daily activities like people
normal view. Even Rama was crushed to continue
creativity. Rama has even managed to publish that book
he wrote it himself.

THE NAME OF Jean-Dominique Bauby. The man from France, better known
as a journalist, author, and editor of Elle Magazine, a fashion magazine
leading French publications. In March 1997, Jean died deep
age 45 years. In 1995, in a fairly young age, 43
year, Jean had a stroke. A disease known by name
Locked-in Syndrome. Jean was unconscious for 20 days after
stroke attacked him. When he woke up, Jean could not move
his whole body. Including swallowing even Jean can not afford. He
can only move one part of his body, that is winking
his left eye. Although Jean was totally paralyzed, but he still can
think clearly. Before he died, he had finished
his memoir entitled 'Le scaphandre et le papillon' or inside
its English version, 'The Diving Bell and The Butterfly'. How is it
can write while his whole body can not move? In
compiled his book, Jean communicate with her nurse,
Henriette Durand. He will choose the letters and punctuation to be
selected by blinking his left eye. It takes about 200
thousands of winks left eye to finish the book. For
every letter chosen, it takes an average of about 2
minute. 'The Diving Bell and The Butterfly' in the Language Edition
France was launched in March 1997. And in just one week,
has sold over 150 thousand copies. Ten days after
his book published, Jean exhaled his last ash
pneumonia.

What red thread can be drawn from the two stories above? Rama and
Jean does have limitations. But that does not mean that with
the limitations that exist, life then stalled. Problems exist and
also limitations, proves that life exists and continues
walk. Paul Gordon Stoltz in his book `Adversity Quotient,
Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities', says that someone
tough humans can be seen from its durability when
get into trouble and how tough they face a problem
the. This is called adversity quotient.

What did Rama and Jean show that they did not
stay silent over all the limitations possessed. That's what
we have to do when we have trouble. Facing. And find a solution
the best. Not by complaining. Complaining within limits
certain can be a human thing. But what
complaining is a solution?

So, no matter how difficult the problem that befell us and anyhow
the magnitude of the global crisis that hit the country, we have to be ready
to deal with it. The quality of one's life will also be seen
how he solved the problem. Therefore, face and
solve all the problems facing. Rama and Jean with
its limitations, capable of doing something useful, even
achievement. Well the question is, if they can, do not we
also, at least, able to do the same thing? Maybe even more
from them.