Mother's love

Here is another story of a boy, named Tonoy, who was suffering from Muscular Dystrophy and had suffered from gait disorder from early ages. When he was detected to be suffering from the irreversible disease, his mother, an women of immense strength and innumerable patience accepted the truth with equanimity and commendable spirit. She has chalked out a plan to enroll Tonoy in a school and Tonoy started his education with the help from his mother who was his constant companion. Since they didn't have a car, Tonoy's mom used to carry him and take him to school in a rickshaw. Tonoy was extremely bright and always fared good in class and his mother had dreamt about him and keen on giving him the best education despite all the difficulties. With advancing age, Tonoy's condition has worsened and his mom with her characteristic strength took the emotional as well as physical hardship in her strides and from early morning, right from feeding, bathing, reading, and dressing Tonoy, she used to carry some 60 kg heavy Tonoy to the rickshaw everyday and go with him to put him in school. Then it was time for Tonoy to appear for the board exam and with mom as his constant support he came out with flying colours securing more than 70% in the exam. It was a tremendous feat for a boy who started losing sensation of his muscles and even holding the pen had been an effort for him. The most spectacular thing about this utterly moving display of love is the fact that all this while, Tonoy's mom made a documentary about her time spent with this special child and i got the opportunity to see the movie. Not only me but the whole of the audience was moved to tears, to see a mom's heavenly and undying love for her son. Tonoy died 3 years back but through his mom's loving care, he he lived life in the best possible way..

Need we be a Phoenix ?

Do you believe in phrases like "rising from the ashes"? It is something like when you see death in the face, and come out of it alive and it feels like you are reborn and you look at life from a new angle which till then you refused to acknowledge or see. I have seen people in my life who after experiencing great loss or after a near death experience have changed in a profound way. It is like life has taken a completely different turn for the better. The words of wisdom so much heard and read before starts giving real meaning and the person actually starts living a life of wisdom, mellows down and becomes humble and grounded. One comes out tougher and can face the adversities of life with calm and matter of fact way. It is strange that people don't realize certain things in life unless they experience the transiency of life through some adverse situations. Does it mean such experiences are necessary to comprehend the way we should view life? Not at all..What I think necessary is for people to realize about the philosophy of life through day to day experience, however mundane those experiences seem to be..People now a days are working at tremendous pace without so much as pausing for breathe. It is no wonder then that they miss out the opportunities of enriching their life through real life situation just because they don't have time to pause and reflect. What I feel at this juncture is that we should take life one day at a time and take time to look around, reflect, comprehend, and act on certain situation which can give a deeper meaning to our life. We don't need an accident or some disaster to jolt us to reality..we need to comprehend the inherent meaning of life through our normal life situation so that we get constantly enriched and are elevated to a higher state of mind through our wisdom and action.