Saskia wrote:
So, why do you find albinos so attractive? and why call us perfect...we're the same as everyone else.... aren't we..?
-Sassy
This reply is almost a year late, oh-so-many apologies, but I thought a decent response to your question is needed. Not just out of (epic amounts of) respect to you, Sassy, but also to Bianca’s family and their website community.
Um, my personal experience with albinos is quite limited (to say the least) but I have always had good experiences, and I can associate my brief encounters with such amazing people with important events in my life. A good example being my trip to Israel...encounters as follows.
-When on the train ride into town to buy my air ticket I was really tense and frustrated, the trip was planned with nothing for a budget and that was getting on my nerves. One of the last stations before the city center is called Albion, and here a pretty young girl with white skin and faded blond hair boarded my train cabin and sat across the isle from me. When we arrived at the city station (located underground) she removed her sunglasses stood up to leave, I was closer to the door so I pretended to search for my ticket (yes, I am devious at times). As she passed and looked at me briefly I noticed her eyes were light crystal blue and turned inwards. Bingo! My suspicions were confirmed, the pretty girl was albino.
I had mixed feelings for the rest of the afternoon. I found myself to be really relaxed (all the stress and angst had gone), but I was constantly kicking myself for being too shy or distracted not to at least say hi. Later I concluded that a long-departed family friend was watching over me, and helped me to calm down by sending a pretty angel for me to admire.
-During my window shopping around the markets and malls in Be’er Sheba I sometimes noticed an albino lad hanging out with his friends. During my last week in Israel I noticed the boy playing a game in a computer store, and kicking his friend’s butt with mocking ease. In the same week, after walking a kilometer in 47C of dry heat, I looked up passed the traffic lights outside the same mall and I noticed a man, immaculately presented with white skin and hair, calmly walk along the foot path, across the road, and into the mall. On both occasions I was left standing in a corner, with my mouth gaping open, and one of two thoughts crashing around my mind.... ‘only in Israel’ ....or.... ‘bloody show-off’.
-My other wonderful encounter was, of course, meeting the pup Sheleg at my second Kibbutz. Another overly friendly and energetic albino (there are so many). Reflecting on that time I’m beginning to think that Sheleg was the volunteers’ guardian angel. She was always close by, watching the group, and somehow keeping us out of danger....I found two more photos of the pooch with some volunteers in the kibbutz fields. They’re digging up the freshly planted husks of mortar shells (there was never a shortage of them thanks to the Gaza Strip).
-And, finally, on my last day in Israel I traveled to Jerusalem to visit the Western Wall the Old City. That was an awesome day for so many reasons, but my departure from Jerusalem also had a memorable surprise. After a day of trekking around the Western Wall and the Jewish Quarter in the typically baking sun (not so bad except for the American tourists *shudders*) I was over heated and over tired and only thinking of crashing out in the coach back to Be’er Sheba. As I stumbled through the crowds in the Central Bus Station I passed a group of Arab women, dressed in black robes with only their faces showing. One of the younger women was completely white, including her eyes, and on seeing her I almost force-marched into a book stand. *Sighs* I’m always so easily distracted.
Done....That’s my short story of an answer. Basically I’m fond of albinos because, in different ways, they have had lasting impressions on me. I’ve never seen them, or had a reason to think of them, in a bad light (hopeless pun alert).
Ah. Something for the community in general. If anyone tries to convince you that people with albinism are less than average, unimportant, or in anyway unattractive, politely remind them that the most common icon for the Playboy franchise is an albino rabbit (researching this topic does have the occasional perk). Albinos are fascinating creations that turn up in some amazing places.
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~Matt
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I thought you were busy with school work, perhaps this may have been better. But it is good that you are well again and back amongst us...this place had gone suspiciously quite without you.
