Make a difference...

I was reading a story in a regional news paper today. Its about a kid from Chennai who lost both his legs and hands in a ghastly accident and his life from that day to the day he is writing 10th class exams on his own. Whole story is really encouraging, hard to even imagine what he would have gone through...I could not but think about couple of things that came to my mind while i was reading that:

• "This is a situation that we can not avoid. But lets live with it. Let us live it. Let us try to be normal. Let us fight it." said his parents. Most of the times, we tend to express sympathy to people facing extreme difficulties...however, a word of encouragement can never substitute an hour of expressing sympathy. We should not allow the people to get into a mode of self pity. Thats what the kid's parents did, a first step for a major change.


• His mother saw that he has got an interest in drawing and painting. She encouraged him inspite of his physical disability. That gave him encouragement to struggle. When all the kids in school hesitated to be friends with him in school becasue of disability, it is the drawing that made people say 'Wow!!' and win him friends.


• A rehabilitation centre has arranged for artificaila legs. Sometimes we forget or tend to not think about the little things that we can do make a huge difference in the world we live in. It is absolutely alright to say that is the first step for the change in the kids life - the artificial legs taught him to be independent for his daily needs. One after the other he learnt to find easy ways of doing things.


• Today if he is the recipent of the state award and first person to write 10th class exams without both the limbs and legs, it is all because of two things, "A desire to struggle" and "A hand to pat and say, don't look back".

With Stephen Hawking as an inspiration, this kid can aspire to be a graphics designer, friends, there is a serious lesstion that we have to learn. We are accountable to everything that we have in life, everything that we have proper in our life, everything that is in order in life...

A step towards a change in our lives can be a step towards a change around us, no matter how small the step is, it is significant....let us make a difference!!