And I always thought my problems are bigger ..

We at R SQUARE are handling India Inclusion Summit 2016 in November and Rohit is curating the speakers . During one such event he was to meet Priyanka one of the speakers and asked me to tag along . I wasn’t sure why I was going yet happily went with no expectations. We were to meet her near the Ganesha temple inside embassy golf links and thanks to Ms. Google we reached the venue correctly . I see a smiling face walk out of the building and Rohit call her name out and that was when I realized she was priyanka and was partially blind. Now my senses were all alert and watching her as I felt responsible , she said we could go to the cafeteria and lead us without the stick and I was amazed until she almost walked through a barricade and I abruptly stopped her . She then asked me if she could hold my hands and I readily agreed and of course reached the cafeteria and settled there . While they were speaking about her life I was watching them and listening with rapt attention , I clicked a pic too. I thought we had so much stress in our day to day life until I met her . I always believed as humans, until we loose what we have we wont value it and until we see bad we don’t understand what is good .

She spoke about her childhood in a Marwari family , the upbringing . Her losing her eye sight and still leaving home to pursue her career, her struggle in the corporate sea like IBM , her commuting , her passion for dance etc

It made me think what problems do I really have ? In fact we create problems that we don’t have with all the time we have with us . I couldn’t go for a holiday , I missed buying something , I fought with someone , the traffic jam, no network etc. I was so ashamed at the fact that we live to create problems and people like priyanka to fight the real problems that exists . Who is more capable here ? Need I answer ?

We will at most times have a ready list of what we don’t have. Well who appreciates what is there ? Isn’t our purpose to chase what we don’t have ? Isn’t that how it has worked from years now ? Hasn’t that become our way of living ? I snapped back from all the thoughts towards the “now” and she said she wanted to take a selfie and I happily jumped at the thought of it 🙂

what we always miss is to thank the universe for the life we have , to thank the five senses without which the world wouldn’t have been the same . The ability to talk, walk, eat , drink , touch when we want is the freedom we own and should be happy about . She said bye and cheerfully went back to her life not before she made me think so much . I have a feeling that IIS is going to change my life with so many stories told and untold .. I can only say Gratitude to the universe for I was again reminded to appreciate what I have ..