The lives we live

We had just finished a massive eye camp in anandwan.on the last day,the ot had finished at 6 am and a few of us had decided to go for a morning walk..
We came across a blind school with notes of music coming out,so we just went in entranced by the music..
What we saw was a blind teacher teaching harmonium and tabla to
His students,i looked at the harmonium keys to see if there were any markings on them for the blind to identify them,but there weren't any.Yet when any of the kids played any key wrong,the teacher would catch them immediately and made sure they played correctly.
We got talking to the teacher to try and learn something from him,he explained to us the importance of the notes in music how each key represented a different note and how playing different notes can make music,i knew all of this because i myself had learned singing as a child,but i had forgotten it all as i grew older,now it all came crashing back to me,how i had left singing so many years back because i thought that i had to concentrate on my studies and i couldn't do both,so i stopped singing.
And here i was, listening to this man sing sufi music in the most beautiful,heart touching voice i have ever heard and i wanted to sing,i wanted to be there singing,not listening,so i sang,i sang whatever little i could remember of those long ago lessons,and my heart was both heavy and light.heavy because of what i missed and light because i did what i enjoyed with no thought of tomorrow,in that moment i was in the present and thats all that matters.
we took leave of the teacher,not knowing if we will ever meet again,yet having learnt something from him.
Here was a visually impaired person who was living life in the present while i was a physically normal person who thought i was living a fulfilling life while the truth is that i was living in an empty shell because i had left behind so many valuable things to be where i am today.

My inspiration..

This blog is dedicated to a very great lady, a superwoman, and somebody i have always looked up to..
She's beautiful, intelligent, talented and has a heart of gold.
She not only is a successful doctor, but also a wife and a mother, and is loved and respected by everyone who know her..
She is an extremely dedicated and successful doctor, and is passionate about her job,  and though she could have worked in any of the successful corporate hospitals and could have made a lot of money, she didn't, instead she chose to work in a semi-charitable hospital,which charges minimal fees, she doesn't earn much, but the care she gives to each of her patients is much more than what most other doctors bother to give..
thats why her patients keep coming back to her, and keep recommending her to other patients..

Though she is a successful doctor, she still takes good care of her family and friends,she is one of those people on whom you can rely on ,at a moment of crisis. I have seen this lady run at a moments notice ,to any of her friends or family who need her. I have never seen her say "no" to anyone who asks her for her help..
She has been a good mother to her kids, she has done everything a mother should do for her kids and more, she put her career on the back burner so she can take care of her kids, she not only made sure that her children got the best opportunities,went to the best schools and colleges, but she also made sure that they had other interests and developed their hobbies, she has attended every parent teacher meeting and worked hard so that her children could excel, and today her children are each successful in their own right because of the hard work and faith she has had in them..
Despite all her achievements, she is down to earth, and she keeps giving back to the society in whatever way she can, not just by helping poor patients, but also by helping underprivileged kids get education..
She is the reason i wanted to become a doctor, and i have always wanted to be like her, i have tried hard to be like her, but I'm nothing compared to what she is. Though she's approaching her 60's,she still works harder than anyone i know, and she still looks beautiful, inside and out..

She's  a superwoman, a lot of people might have heard of Shobha de or someone famous,when they say "superwoman", but not many have heard of Dr. Madhuravani
Yes, she's my inspiration and she is my Mom and this blog is dedicated to her..

          My Mom,My inspiration!!