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You and I can help handicapped people by letting them define happiness for themselves. We can make life more miserable for them if we constantly remind them of how terrible we feel because of what they are missing. When we do that we are really saying to them, "Please get rid of your handicap because it makes me so uncomfortable."
Let me illustrate how differently abled people can be happy in their ignorance. Sometimes during a long Iowa winter, I walk to class in the morning and decide, "It's a nice day because I can feel the sun warming my back". Then some sighted person comes along and says, "It's such a dull, depressing day." To him it is dull because the sun is under the clouds. That doesn't really destroy my happiness, and I do need to be aware that other people perceive the world in ways other than I do. I need to recognise that, just as I need to turn on lights in a room for the benefit of others even though I don't need them. So I will continue to be happy about the warm sun while my friend is depressed by the gray clouds. And, on other days, I will be depressed by the cold while he enjoys the bright, but cold, sunshine. We can each find happiness in our own way.
Is this so different from what happens to any of you? You are all missing out on some success or happiness. Your fathers are all disabled in some ways. Some of you are too short to be successful basketball players, and others of you are too scrawny to be professional football players. Do you cry yourselves to sleep every night because of what you are missing? I doubt it.
We can make the life of a differently abled person easy and comfortable by-
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Allowing him to define happiness in his own way
The passage opens with the writer's main point: we can help handicapped people "by letting them define happiness for themselves". It ends on the same idea: "We can each find happiness in our own way."
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Sympathising with him — Incorrect. Contradicted: the writer warns against it: we make life more miserable for them if we keep reminding them how terrible we feel about what they are missing.
Option 3: By making him realise his handicap — Incorrect. Contradicted: this is the very thing that hurts them; it amounts to saying "get rid of your handicap because it makes me so uncomfortable".
Option 4: By reminding him of his flaws — Incorrect. Contradicted: constant reminders of what a person lacks make life harder, not easier, according to the passage.