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A man on wheelchair @ Paraplegic Foundation can inspire millions
As a part of the PULSE initiative, I am volunteering with Paraplegic Foundation (PF) & helping them in improving their operational efficiency. The motto of the PF is to achieve transformative change among people with disabilities enabling the community to lead a life of dignity and opportunity. The time I am spending here, feels like nothing I could have ever imagined…it is wonderful beyond imagination!!
Personally, I am inspired by people with special abilities, few such people I am working with in the PF office as well. Most of all, I am inspired by their zest for life, positive outlook and enjoying every moment for what it is today.
There are moments which have left indelible imprints in my mind & one such experience is interacting with an accountant, Rajendra Bhai & knowing about him was very touching & inspiring.
Rajendra’s tragic journey began at the age of three years, when the monster called polio engulfed his both legs & rendered him severely disabled & his destiny didn’t allow him to continue his schooling beyond 10th standard. Like many, his circumstances forced him to search for a job. Rajendra started working in Paraplegic foundation as a helper in workshop, soon he realised the importance of education & decided to continue his study but for many people like Rajendra, education is a daydream. They have to choose between stomach & classroom, but despite the hardship, he decided to work in a day time & study in college at night. That wasn’t at all easy for him to climb up & down from his fourth floor room as a toddler & to travel another 10 miles from his tricycles after completing day’s exhaustive work but he did, he completed his graduation in Commerce stream & well deservingly promoted to work as accountant here. But sometime we forget that cruelty of destiny knows no boundary, one fine morning his only child succumbed to fatal brain haemorrhage, the brutal news blown away his mind & shattered him into pieces. But he is not an ordinary mortal soul like us, he was determined to face the ordeal and conquer over the challenges life offers every time, soon he joined the accounting software “Tally” learning classes & mastered it within few months. To my simple question, what keeps you so motivated? His answer is “if there is a life, there will be challenges & I have only determined not to surrender but to overcome & being handicapped is just a state of mind to me”. Hats off to your zeal for life Rajendra Bhai & salute to paraplegic foundation for inculcating such an attitude.
Hi Komal
Hats off to Rajendra Bhai from my Side also !!!!!!!!!!!!!!. This is the way of thinking how the people are enjoying the life
Hemant
Every child gets knowledge from his family and one of the most important knowledge we all learn in childhood is “help others” – we didn’t understand the meaning of helping that point of time but gradully we grow up we learn so many things, we keep ourselves busy with new activities but that two words “helping Others” vanishes from our dictionary. Todays trading world does not allow us to make unconditional help to others and we seek for excuses to avoid doing such “godly things” of Helping Others. My father used to say “these days and nights, full moon to no moon, summers to winters all are happening because still God is sending his angels into the earth in the guise of humans who help in aleviating the pain of all miseries in our society”.
Komal you are that chosen one by GOD.
We all are hypocrites who madly chant prayer from our holy books or crazily soaking into the beats of bells and drums in our religious places hoping almighty is listening to us. Swami Vivekananda says “loving living souls is praying for god” but we hardly demonstrate our love towards our brothers, sisters or friends who are in misery.
Update more things in this blog to motivate us. Atleast I can have story to tell that I’m a good associate of Komal Gupta – The GOD’s man.
All the best,
Sumanta
Dear Sumanta,
Thanks for your thought provoking comments & encouragement.
Regards
Komal
Tks for being a part of the PULSE initiative from Nabha (India) and volunteering with Paraplegic Foundation .
Lot of Tks for sharing inspiring story of Rajendra Bhai .
Great -Another way of thinking , enjoying the life & motivating others . Hats off to Rajendra Bhai zeal for life & salute to all associated with such NGO’s paraplegic foundation for inculcating such an attitude
Dear Sir,
Thanks for comment & continued support.
Regards
Komal
Komal thanks for sharing. very inspirational.