| 簡介：在台灣，平均不到三小時就有一人因意外或疾病而失明。但失去視力就代表人生就此黯然失色嗎？看看這些視障朋友如何在黑暗盡頭處看見曙光。
Strength from Within
When the alarm goes off in the morning, you open your eyes, check the weather outside, and look at yourself in the mirror as you brush your teeth. This is the morning routine for many people. For the visually impaired, however, every day is filled with the challenge of living in a dark or blurry world.
Zhuang Jing-Jie（莊靜潔）, who started losing her eyesight when she was thirteen, can only see about ten centimeters beyond her nose. She describes her world as “foggy, as though you were eating hot, steaming noodles with your glasses on.”
Although the problems with her eyes pushed obstacles in front of her, Zhuang refused to let them stop her from succeeding in her studies. She used a telescope to read the blackboard and a magnifying glass for her textbooks. Although she had to work harder than most of her classmates, she still did very well on the university entrance exam.
黑暗盡頭有曙光
當鬧鐘清晨響起，你睜開眼睛，看看外頭的天氣，一邊刷牙一邊看著鏡中的自己。這是很多人早上的例行公事。不過對視障者來說，每一天都充滿了生活在黑暗或模糊世界中的挑戰。
十三歲開始漸漸喪失視力的莊靜潔只能看到距鼻子約十公分內的事物。她描述自己的世界「霧茫茫的，就像戴著眼鏡吃著冒著熱氣的麵」。
即使眼睛的問題將障礙推到莊靜潔面前，她拒絕讓它們阻礙她的學業成就。她用望遠鏡看黑板，並用放大鏡閱讀課本。雖然她必須比多數同學更加努力，她仍在大學入學考試中表現非常優秀。  |
