Read this post a few minutes back...
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Definitely impressive. Chicken soup to the soul in the morning :-)
'When one door closes, God opens another door somewhere else!'
Cynics will always say that he would not have reached this far, if he did not have the problems that he faced.
But then what are cynics for - to make you think 'zara hatke', perhaps?
Would the following have happened, if he was normal?
(a) JC waiving his fees off
(b) Hospital taking care of his college fees
(c) Sundar paying his hostel fees
(d) Institute providing lifts, ramps, powered-wheel-chairs etc.
In his own words, he would have ended up as a farmer in Godavari district! The moral is: It takes some calamity for people to recognize the human inside them. Why wait for that calamity? What is important is the ability to help out under normal circumstances.
No use just to write cheques, only when there is an earthquake or a typhoon or what not. That is what we call as 'band-aid patch' in software parlance. The root cause has not been addressed (another software jargon). It is easy to give money and apply Tiger Balm to the tattered soul.
Ask yourself: Do you have the 'help-under-normal-circumstances' gene activated in your DNA?
1 comment:
Not an excuse - but the way we are conditioned in our profession, such a thot hardly crosses our mind !
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