A result of having managed to fight my way into a considerably good medical school is the privilege of hearing many awe-inspiring, fantastico success stories from the people around me; stories of how people fought hard, against all odds, to make it to MBBS. One among those I have heard has been particularly moving for me, both because the story has such deep roots, and also because the story is of a girl who's a friend of mine.
Every person who is successful thinks that he's fought his way to the top. No one thinks it's easy and claims that luck was on his side. Everyone has to overcome problems, some more grave than the others, to achieve their goals. But of all the problems that a person can have, bad health would probably be the biggest one, both emotionally and physically. Hospitalisation can have such stress on our mind. This post is about a fantastico girl who fought all odds, including her health, to be more successful than any of the rest of us were.
My friend had adolescent-onset scoliosis. It's a disease where one has an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine. She dealt with being pointing at, and being looked at differently for her handicap, during those adolescent years when every girl is the most into her looks. She had her priorities set, though; she knew what she wanted. She held her head high and studied hard. But her strength was put to a test when it was declared that she needed to urgently undergo surgery to correct her spine curvature, after her tenth grade. The surgery, the risk of never making it alive, was so much to take; eight days alone in the I.C.U. immobilised, with hardly much to do, visitors only from a window in the distance, months of hollering in her sleep from the nightmares and an entire year of wearing a two-kilogram heavy brace. That's a different level of odds she had to fight against, altogether. But she did it; she put herself through intermediate coaching in a tedious corporate college, where it is too hard for even any healthy person to stay sane. For a while she was a robot; all she did was study. But that's when good things began to happen to her. She met a boy, and found happiness like she never had before, and made it out of intermediate coaching with a whooping double digit rank in her competitive exam! That is simply fantastico! She is a standing example of the notion that hard work and strong will can take us anywhere we direct it.
She made her parents, her relatives and her boyfriend proud, and more than anyone, she's made me proud to call her my friend. And not to mention, she's one of the most beautiful young women that I know today. She is fantastico!
Every person who is successful thinks that he's fought his way to the top. No one thinks it's easy and claims that luck was on his side. Everyone has to overcome problems, some more grave than the others, to achieve their goals. But of all the problems that a person can have, bad health would probably be the biggest one, both emotionally and physically. Hospitalisation can have such stress on our mind. This post is about a fantastico girl who fought all odds, including her health, to be more successful than any of the rest of us were.
My friend had adolescent-onset scoliosis. It's a disease where one has an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine. She dealt with being pointing at, and being looked at differently for her handicap, during those adolescent years when every girl is the most into her looks. She had her priorities set, though; she knew what she wanted. She held her head high and studied hard. But her strength was put to a test when it was declared that she needed to urgently undergo surgery to correct her spine curvature, after her tenth grade. The surgery, the risk of never making it alive, was so much to take; eight days alone in the I.C.U. immobilised, with hardly much to do, visitors only from a window in the distance, months of hollering in her sleep from the nightmares and an entire year of wearing a two-kilogram heavy brace. That's a different level of odds she had to fight against, altogether. But she did it; she put herself through intermediate coaching in a tedious corporate college, where it is too hard for even any healthy person to stay sane. For a while she was a robot; all she did was study. But that's when good things began to happen to her. She met a boy, and found happiness like she never had before, and made it out of intermediate coaching with a whooping double digit rank in her competitive exam! That is simply fantastico! She is a standing example of the notion that hard work and strong will can take us anywhere we direct it.
She made her parents, her relatives and her boyfriend proud, and more than anyone, she's made me proud to call her my friend. And not to mention, she's one of the most beautiful young women that I know today. She is fantastico!
This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.
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