This week’s column had a theme that we are not going to talk about, when I already had finished the article and just about to email it I read an article in DEIA that captivated me and at the same time it aroused a lot of queasiness in me.
A driving school of Basauri is teaching to drive the first person in Europe that uses his legs as his arms. For me it is another example of a human overcoming his adversities, but at the same time, the story has much more to say.
David Rivas, is the name of the student, is from Madrid and his problem is that he was born armless. He works coordinating a team of 11 people inside the Integralia Foundation that makes the procedures of appointments at the La Paz Hospital. Ok, this far all is normal. What got my interested was that someone from Madrid had to ask for a month off to be able to come to Euskadi (Basque Country) to face this challenge in trying to earn his driving license with a car that is adapted to his handicap. There are many driving schools with cars adapted to the most common handicaps but nobody wanted to accept the challenge to make it possible, opportunity for David to earn his license permit? They say that David handles the computer perfectly with his feet, in which his ability he does have.
It is sad that people with so obvious difficulties many times the surroundings, either social level, economic or of another nature, raise even more obstacles, making it even more difficult than it is already.
But this news also offers us another understanding, the pride to know that although in many occasions we are criticized for our political and ideological reasons and sometimes even for our culture, the truth of the matter is that there are great many avant-garde people like the driving school Irrintzi that are daring to take the adventure, as this one, showing that the Basques are neither better nor worse then others, but we are, and allow me the expression... AWESOME!
Good luck David and ….. burn rubber.
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