Friday, June 12, 2009

Dreams on Fire

We have all had some or the other dream, to become something or the other or to do something or the other. Some of our dreams come true some don't for whatever reasons.

It is said that all our desires are not fulfilled. This is an old adage. It is often said that man proposes and god disposes. These are being said for ages now.

From my experiences i can only say that wherever i have failed, whatever i have not been able to get,do or achieve is totally because of my incompetence and my lethargy. I do not know of any other variable which governed my failures. Certainly i cannot hold god whoever it is responsible for my failures. In one sense i am lucky since to my mind till today, i don't feel like blaming God for my incompetence.

But i met a girl in an NGO yesterday , aged probably 15 or 16. She has just passed her 10 grade (SSLC). She wants to pursue nursing. What a noble idea. All of us run in this mad rat race to earn our living and struggle hard to fulfill our selfish desires. But this girl is not one amongst us. She wants to nurse people's pains. Of course she had some inadequacies which are beyond her control.

She is an unfortunate victim of one of the most deadly viruses known to man called HIV. She was born with this virus being transmitted from her mother. For no fault of hers she has got this virus. In spite of this, she has lived for 16 years and has also passed 10th grade. It is quite an achievement considering that she was abandoned from the society, grew up in a NGO with limited facilities, seeing death of friends and inmates in the NGO almost every week.

But unfortunately no nursing school would take her. Its not also the mistake of the nursing school. Its very difficult for them too to train a HIV patient to be a paramedic.

Its an unfair world. I have failed on many of my ventures totally owning to my incompetency which are not by birth. But this young girl has all the desire to do something in life but simply she cannot because of a virus she has inherited which is not her fault. She has nowhere to go now. Nor she knows how long she will live. But at the moment her dreams are on fire.

Statistically only 30% of the babies get the virus transmitted by their mother. Medical advances have brought this number to about 5% now. But this young girl is unfortunately within this 30%.
Whom to blame her misfortune on? may be fortune itself............................

1 comment:

  1. Even to say that this is a 'thought provoking post' would be to do injustice to the sensitivity addressed herein. Wish we could just hold the hands of these kids and provide them with whatever little emotional comfort & closure a fellow human's touch can provide.

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