Well...
thanks a ton to our college for bringing him to the college and giving us an opportunity to come into direct contact with an amazing person...
Mr Saleem....
An old man in his early 70's with a bright cheerful face...
and a rather sad story to tell....
Got his left leg amputated at the age of around 25-30...
he met an accident...got a fracture...
got it fixed after a surgery and plaster....
then, he was walking fine but with little problem with his gait...probably due to some abnormal positioning of the fractured bone....
thought of getting that fixed too...
another surgery...
this time...his luck was not with him...
caught an infection....
it worsened... and the leg had to be amputated...
not to forget that while he met his accident he was actually going back home to get himself married...
he did that after losing his leg though...
and led a far better life than many of us who have all their four limbs working perfectly well...
the thing that kept him going (according to him)
was his strong faith....(on Almighty above)...
so he says...he never blamed anybody...
never regretted anthing..
and is thankful for the blessed life he had lived so far......
The meeting inspired us....
and made us ashamed....
what a complaining lot we are?
we have everything....but still we keep on asking for more and more..
never content...never satisfied..
and there are people who face great misfortunes and still manage to stay content...
what a weak faith we have in the Almighty above..???
May we be able to learn something from such people... :)
5 comments:
we surely need to learn. :)
very touching and hatts off to Mr.Saleem.
Mr.Saleem is one of those who make me feel very very small. I met one gentleman with a similar gift:
http://lightspeedperspective.blogspot.com/2009/01/guts.html
True true, man always has the need to want more. Its in our genes! It's oonly when we meet lesser people do we realise how blessed we are. But then, we would not be men unless we had that, greed, desire to attain perfection, however never-ending that pursuit may be...
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