Late last evening while I was switching the screen tabs on my desktop, feeling tired and frustrated, I came across this Human’s of Bombay post. The picture of one girl standing tall with an amputee leg intrigued me and I clicked on the link. What I read was nothing but inspiring, about how one girl lost her leg to circumstances. The girl still seemed so upbeat about her life that I was moved and motivated by her infectious energy.
I pictured myself without a leg and all of a sudden everything seemed so scary. So when read about this courageous girl who fought all odds, trained for five hours a day, despite her job as a software engineer, and without a leg, managed to win badminton tournaments and events at the national level, I was deeply inspired.
I am still in awe of how this woman juggled her job, trained in scuba diving and travelled through India in spite of all the difficulties. The one thing she asks, which is deeply profound, “What’s stopping you?”
Here’s the post for you to read.
“I was on my way to work on a two wheeler one day when a trucked rammed into me and completely crushed my leg. It wasn’t the driver’s fault – there was a pillar which hindered his vision. People around immediately took me to the hospital and even though it happened around 9:30 am I was only operated upon at 5:30 pm. The doctors tried to save my leg but after a few days it got infected and I had to be amputated. When the doctor told me, I asked him ‘why did you take so long? I knew for a while that this would happen.’
What got me through this whole ordeal is acceptance – that this is my fate, now I can either choose to cry about it, or take it with a pinch of salt and push myself…I picked the latter. In fact when people used to come to visit me in the hospital and get emotional – I would tell them jokes to make them laugh!
So I took the physiotherapy, and began to learn how to walk all over again. My biggest fear was that I wouldn’t be able to play badminton which has been my passion since childhood – but somehow even while I was facing difficulty in walking…I could play. I began winning corporate badminton tournaments, and on the suggestion of one of my amputee friends decided to try out at a National Level. I went on to win several medals at the National level and, this year I won Silver in the Para Badminton World Championship held in England. I’ve trained for 5 hours a day, whilst juggling my job as a software engineer, almost completed my training in Scuba Diving and traveled pretty much all over India. When people ask me, ‘how do you do so much?’ I just ask one question – ‘what’s stopping you?'”
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