DO WE MATCH ?

The stadium was full,though mostly by the parents and other kith and kin of the contestants.But the cotests were genuine,severe and intense. Thr final item was a 100 meter race with 6 participants.The youngest of the lot was a 4ft tall, tiny little girl.The result would decide not only the individual athletic champion but also the team trophy.
The race started in full earnest. But half way through the little girl who had a chance to get both the trophies fell and hurt herself.She got up and immediately sat down in pain.May be she sprained a leg.She was weeping. The race was still on. But suddenly there was hush in the stadium.There was something wrong here. The competitors were not running to the tape.All the remaining 5 runners were running back to the start line.The converged near the crying girl. Without hesitation two of the taller ones lifted her up and started running back to the finish line.The remaining three deliberately were running slow so taht the trio could finish first.At the finish line, the injured girl was placed on the track and allowed to limp ahead first in the race.The stadium clapped because it had to.But the greatest celbration was from the contestants themsleves, including by the girl who missed the individual trophy because she helped her injured competitor to finish first.But the joy was writ on all faces.
A crazy story, you might think.But this was a true incident that happend just four months back in Hyderabad.The occaion was the sports meet of the mentally challenged children from all over south India. All the participants were mentally challenged kids. What were they trying to teach the rest of us? The rest of us who think even in daily routine we have to finish ahead of the other even i it is at the cost of hurting him. Do we match these kids? Are they the ones with mental diasbilities or are we the ones?