Nah… if you see this I don’t like you to think of it as
inspirational. Nopes. It doesn’t inspire me. It’s not that if you have cerebral
palsy or any such thing you can still defeat the odds and come out trumps. That
is something I take for granted. You can defeat all odds and come out trumps. The
question is simply what sacrifices you want to make and how much will power you
have.
The big thing in this I see is simply a little bit of me. This
chic doesn’t need your sympathy or special treatment; she has accepted what wrong
and moved on. She accepted what’s not there and moved on in life. It’s a freaking
joke. Have fun. Now can you move on?
I have sick many numbers of times. I have been a sickly kid
all my childhood. I would fall sick every year and most of the time more than three
times a year. I was pretty frustrated. All my college life I was weighing
around 58 kgs. I would look at weighing scale and hope it inches upwards. In variably
there was a pattern – I move up to 60 and boom – I would fall sick. Back to eth
dreaded 58. So when people tell me that today I look lean – I wonder – I am 73
kgs now. imagine me with 15 kgs less! Wow. That is LEAN. But I have always been
sick so being sick is pretty cool with me. I moved on from being sick and
grumpy to being sick and funny. I mean who the hell cares – its fun. I don’t want
to be seen as a dumb grumpy guy with an issue. I want to be as a fun guy who is
fun not because he is healthy but is fun because he is. Sick or not.
Today I live with two big issues. The first one is my right
knee. It simply dislocates time and again. Ya. Any side strain on it and – pop,
it dislocates. I have learnt to play with the issue. No extra stress on the
right knee. Short steps and less long strides that put outward pressure. And when
it pops, I go through some pain – straighten it till it pops back in. those
around me go “oh shit, I heard the click when it popped in”. So there. It popped
back in and I stand up and say, come on, lets continue. And I SMILE. I never
fail to smile. Hopefully I crack a joke or two at myself. Good fun.
The second affliction I now have to live with my entire life
– lactose intolerant. That too is fun. Jopke about it and move on. What’s the
big deal. Move on.
Surely I don’t have anything as severe as this lady has. She
obviously has fought much more. But I am only inspired not by what she has
achieved. People who work hard will achieve, but I am inspired by her being
able to joke at it. I too want to go on a lactose intolerant stand-up comedy
show and talk about the various shit I face when I talk about being lactose intolerant.
I went to Punjab recently and people there wondered if I had lost it completely
and what kind of quack I must have met. Who the hell doesn’t have lassi or
butter? I already have decent ammo for this. I think in some time I will be a
stand up comic joking about lactose intolerance. My best retort is simply –
well – all humans are lactose intolerant but a lot of us have developed a
mutation that helps us manage and digest lactose. Don’t believe me? Well you
are a mutant according to Wikipedia : “Most
mammals normally cease to produce lactase, becoming lactose intolerant, after
weaning, but some human populations have developed lactase persistence, in
which lactase production continues into adulthood. It is estimated that 75% of
adults worldwide show some decrease in lactase activity during adulthood. The
frequency of decreased lactase activity ranges from 5% in northern Europe
through 71% for Sicily to more than 90% in some African and Asian countries.
This distribution is now thought to have been caused by recent natural
selection favoring lactase-persistent individuals in cultures in which dairy
products are available as a food source. While it was first thought that this
would mean that populations in Europe, India, Arabia and Africa had high
frequencies of lactase persistence because of a particular mutation, it was later shown that lactase persistence is caused by
several independently occurring mutations”
So you are the mutant Ninja turtle, not me. See your pic…
Ok ok… I guess you prefer Wolverine:
See you wished for super powers – you did not know it but
you were actually part of the Mutant project and soon enough you will be called
to join the mutant force to protect Planet Earth.
Ok fine – it sounds much more funnier when I say it than
when I write it. But you get the drift. I surely hope that I don’t go through
much more pain in life. But I surely don’t want to be the guy who would sulk
over it. I want to be the fun guy who went down laughing – laughing my gut out.
Why so serious?
