When life deals you an unkind cut, how you respond to it offers a window to the character you possess.
Blindness at birth can be particularly debilitating because you are deprived of self-dependency. However, if you learn to not just take the disability in your stride but also use it as a motivation to scale the ladder of life, then sky is the limit. As GK Mahantesh has amply illustrated.
Presented with the easier option of falling back on family