Today I went and saw the mentally retarded kids getting trained by a certified special olympics trainer opposite my house. I went in hesitantly but I was welcomed by a kid and grown up retarded guy. I asked the trainer what was at the root of retardation and the treatment for it. He told me a great many things. I was interested to know because I felt retarded. If those kids were 1% normal and 99% retarded, I was 99% normal and 1% retarded. The only difference between me and them was in the percentage. He told me that while money was available to an easier extent, the opportunities for these kids to make a life for themselves was not there. He told me that while these kids compete with normal kids or do a regular job, they can do jobs that suit them. He made a very valid point that if they cannot get some sort of job from the vocational training that they get, they will go back to their previous state. He said money was available more or less but opportunities was not available. These kids can do simple jobs like being an office peon. Even a 3% job reservation quota approved by the government for the disabled did not include people with retardation. These kids deserve it more than the creeps who demand reservation based on caste, sex and religion. One kid was quite intelligent. He warned me of a lizard behind me. It seems that he had a violent history every day before but now only once or twice in a month. The tragic thing was that while the trainer was a sympathetic man, he was totally insensitive to the kid standing next to him and told me that these kids cannot become normal. The trainer may have thought that the kid will not understand technical terms like mental retardation but I noticed that the kid was listening astutely. The only other person listening as astutely as he was me! I wanted to get a hint about getting out of my own retardation. And then I told myself that I too have to just look-out for job opportunities that I can do.