"I would love to get in the middle of a bunch of sleeping Lions and kick the air out of them."
There are less painful ways of killing oneself! V. Balakrishnan At 11:49 AM 3/5/2008 +0530, you wrote: >[SCI-India] Digest Number 1062 > >"Navin Gulia" >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Tue Mar 4, 2008 1:22 am (PST) > >To hell with disability > >I remember I started running every morning and playing football when I >was in 3rd grade, boxing when I was in 7th grade and athletics when I >was in 9th >grade. Running in the morning mist, chill, biting cold of peak winters >or running through the countryside in scorching sun or in the pouring >rain or running >up a mountain, I loved it, I cherished it, I savoured it. > >One fine day I was trying to inch my wheelchair along the hospital >corridor smelling of dettol and phenyl. Partially working hands, aching >muscles, hurting >thumb, it was only a task/job. I didn't dislike it. My wheelchair and me >are buddies, I have loved being in it. Together we took on the world and >everything >it had to offer. If a person on two legs passes by I really don't Gape >at him but when I go in a crowd a few poor leggies gape as if they are >just witnessing >an alien invasion of planet earth (not that aliens would really surprise >me) and I do pray that God should give these poor people some excitement >in their >lives so that they have something better to gape at. > >People have two legs and cannot even maintain any decent physical >fitness are bothered about a guy flying around in a wheelchair, having a >ball of a time. >Laughable. > >At 22 I was in the army. In a wheelchair I went to college, flirted with >girls, fell in love a few times, had a few heartbreaks, jobs, bread and >butter, >adventure sports. A few mountains to climb, a few oceans to swim and a >few jungles and deserts to explore. how the hell could life have been >any better. > >A lot of people, patients, doctors and scientists, are obsessed with >finding a cure for SCI (Spinal Cord Injuries). I don't know, I find it a >very dumb >and dull topic. Here the world and people are suffering from extremism, >terrorism, frustrationism, emptyism, depressionism, purposelessism etc >and here >we are bothered about a certain physical injury called SCI. I think >people should desperately need a cure from many other things and >attitudes before even >bothering about a cure for SCI. > >If you/society wants me to be weak so that they can empathise with me, >sympathise with me, pityise with me, sorry you are at the wrong place, I >am not going >to oblige. If you/the society is looking for an opportunity to show >empathy, sympathy or pity, so that you can feel great inside, to hell >with you. I show >you empathy, sympathy and pity. > >A drunk person who was finding it difficult to walk straight said to me >sometime back 'I will pray for you' and I immediately said 'and I will >pray for >you (that God gives you some sense)'. Although I know God doesn't give >you anything. He has already given you the ability to be sensible, If >you still >choose not to be sensible, he is not to blame. I am rude, I am straight, >I am a bully, I would love to get in the middle of a bunch of sleeping >Lions and >kick the air out of them. A friend for friends and a tearing tiger for >those who ask for it, that's me. Now that we are over with the >introduction, let >us talk business. "I am not decent/ gentlemanly with problems/obstacles >in my life. I kick them out of my way." >To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the subject unsubscribe. > >To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.4/1310 - Release Date: 3/4/2008 >8:35 AM To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
