Chapter 1
“There is suffering in life, and there are
defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in
the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what
you’re fighting for.”- Paulo Coelho.
Dreams, wishes, hopes, aspirations are something that we are all born with and as long as we wish we strive to
achieve these for ourselves, with each passing day we dream more and work even
more to fulfil them and well most of us do get the opportunity to live the
dream but there are a few who just like you have dreams some ordinary some
extra ordinary are not that fortunate enough to live their dreams, they also
have come to this world with great imagination and enthusiasm to be something,
to be like someone , to leave their mark and footprints on everyone’s minds and
hearts and to conquer the world, but they are not as lucky as you to make that
wish happen, they are God’s angels, these are the children suffering from
Cancer at TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, and the reason why I am penning down these
memoirs is because these children also have talent, dreams, stars in their eyes
and well maybe even for a few seconds at least if you read their story you
would know they lead extra ordinary lives.
We could call them soldiers
who are out there battling everyday for their lives not knowing if it’s today
or tomorrow that they will lose, but they are fighting hard, they belong to
that category that does not believe in giving up easily, the strength that they
put in battling for their lives can put death to shame.
They are small light houses
that show you the positive glowing light at the end of the tunnel, going to
those special lectures and speeches on life would probably be less effective in
front of the philosophies that they have on life, your take on life will
definitely change once you hear their take on life, not losing hope and faith
is something they all master pretty well and we could learn a trick or two on
how to appreciate and value the gift that is life.
In a way they are God’s angels,
sometimes you can’t help but wonder if they were specially sent on earth only
to stop us from our busy lives, freeze our surroundings and show us the true
worth of our lives! Don’t they say some people come in our lives, turn it
upside down and just leave, they are those angels , your life is bound to turn
upside down when you see how they live their lives and after even a minute of
talking to them you’d wonder was I living life the wrong way all these years?
There are so many questions
in this universe to which we don’t have any answers not even science but all we
can do is accept them and move on, when you meet these children the only
question you’d want to ask is “why them?” didn’t someone say “the good always
go young”? God works in His own mysterious ways science hasn’t found and answer
to yet, of course there are hundreds and thousands of books out there on “life”,
“ways to lead a good life” , “life- like you never knew” and many more but
sometimes it’s only special people like these that can truly open our eyes
towards life.
They never say life is going
to be fair all they say is life will be worth it, but when we see those little
angels and tears rolling down the eyes, one can’t help but wonder is the life
they lead worth it? The age when they’re supposed to be out playing in the
garden here they are playing for their lives, when we take something as small as
a toy for advantage, the smile you get to see on their faces when given a small
ball is priceless , they come all the way to this hospital from far off remote
places searching for the little ray of hope for life, seeing the parents in the
lobby with tired eyes just looking for light at the end of the tunnel, for some
the journey is over before the end is reached and when all hope comes crashing
down you wonder why do we go through
these things ?
to be continued.....
to be continued.....
