The Story of My Life
The most important day i remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan,came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrast between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March 1887 , three months before I was seven years old.
On the afternoon of that eventful day, I stood on the porch ,dumb, expectant. I guessed vaguely from my mother's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house that something unusal was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the porch, anf fell on my upturned face. My fingers lingered almost unconsciously on the familiar leaves and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks and a deep languor had succeeded this passionate struggle.
have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in , and the great ship , tense and anxious ,groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beat heart foe something to happen ? I was like that ship befor my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knpwing how near the harbor was."Light!Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that evry hour.