Limitations, Restrictions: The Phenomenon

A limitation is a barrier to me. A barrier separates you from opportunities. It stops you from exceeding a certain point. Limitations can alter a person’s lifestyle. They force people to compensate in order to be independent, rather than dependant. Limitations affect things both optimistically and pessimistically.

As I walk through school, I notice that we, as students, suffer from limitations. We all don’t have the same privileges as the adults in the building do. Teachers and staff make sure that there is equality and fairness in the environment. We as students can vaguely debate those regulations, but we most likely wouldn’t be guaranteed triumph. People suffer from disabilities, both physical and mental. Some people are dyslexic, which therefore, disables them from reading fluently. The blind suffer from an immobilization of the sense of sight. Children are also limited by their parents’ rules, such as bedtimes and curfews. That’s the way society has set up itself. Higher authority triumphs.

Handicapped people are very limited. The physically handicapped have difficulty with walking and moving, or, in a more general statement, transportation. Mentally handicapped individuals are limited in their acquirement of knowledge and understanding, as they don’t understand the basics and guidelines of things as much as the average person does. Both of these groups of people require assistance from others to thrive throughout a harsh environment. The government, peers, and assistants are all helpful assets to those with limitations.

Of course, society has a great number of limitations, such as time limits. Society lives around an agenda and this highly affects the organization of meetings and gatherings, rather the world itself! Time limitations cause problems in social lives, meetings, and communication. Time runs the world, and limits it at the same time. Time limits one from doing what they wish, unless they are prepared. (Such as giving this great essay in on time to one of the bestest teachers ever!) J

Well, anyway, you would think having these limitations would regress life, but many accommodations have been made in my community to those with limitations. In a mall, a sociable and loud place, escalators and elevators have been placed to provide an alternative source of switching levels, rather than the stairs, for those who are handicapped. Ramps have been placed, such as the ones at Baldi MS, to aid the physically disabled in proceeding to their destination. I have mentioned before that the disability of blindness is a tragic one. The adaptation of Braille has been founded to aid the blind. It is a system of communication using your sense of touch to “read” words. Little bumps or dots are placed on surfaces that blind people depict by touching, and translating the “language” to words. These little dots are found on remote controls, elevators and even phones!