Inabilities.. Weakness, frailty, powerlessness, inefficacy, incapacitation, inutility - The biggest foe of Mankind. Inabilities aren't inabilities when you believe in your abilities. Every creation of Nature from Man to Moon, from plants to placenta everything has it's own inability. But the Mankind is the one which exaggerates and inflates an empty balloon to a huge parachute. Yes, I'm one among them.
As many say, Life is a limited data plan where we tend to delete mind's melancholy to gain some space to download happiness. I wasn't this matured by that time, but a scrape awaiting for an ease. Being born in a middle class family, my father made every possible thing to satisfy our daily needs, for that he had to deny few of our lavish requests for which we saw him like a villain. Since I was a feeble child right from infancy, I was brought up with extra extra care. My sister still mocks at me that I was nourished enormously with medicines and syrups.
Like a seed's sprout, I struggled and overpowered my illness and grew up. Little did I know that a huge one is awaiting me. Though I wasn't the 'BEST' runner, I was a GOOD runner at that time. Playing Cricket was my favorite pastime for which every weekend's night I get blamed for not completing my home works. A dormant volcano sleeps and sleeps for years to erupt someday. My disease was a dormant volcano in me. A fine day, we split two teams of 8 on each. Luckily we won the toss and just like every kid I chose to bat first. Few singles and two runs were easier and my breathe became heavy with every single sprint. A long shot towards the off side and it was a chance to make a three. The fielder was running behind the ball when we finished the first run and had stopped it when we managed to get two. According to cricketer's mathematics we would be able to finish a run while the ball returns to the wicketkeeper. A runout is a shameful kind of wicket losing and I ran as fast as possible since the ball was approaching the keeper faster than me. My dormant disease erupted and made me to collapse when I was short of two yards from the crease. I just lost my wicket and was struggling heavily for some fresh air to breathe.
My Pals thought that I was just tricking to retain my wicket and they weren't noticing me willingly. In a flash of moment, I knew that something is gonna happen and I headed towards my house. Not revealing my stand to anyone, noiselessly I crawled on to my bed and was trying to console my heavy breathing lungs. Unaware of this my sister came into the room and switched on the fan, which made my condition worse. No air came in nor got out. I was breathing the same air which I exhaled and I hardly got some fresh air. I was hospitalized after a black out.
My diagnosis results showed as follows,
Technical term: Asthma
Common term: Wheezing
A condition in which a person's airways become inflamed, narrow and swell and produce extra mucus, which makes it difficult to breathe. In my case, it was coz of Dust allergy. Whenever I was subjected to dusty environment I tend to suffer and collapse of wheezing. This frailty, like a demon fettered my spirit and mocked me with it's evil laughter. I became a couch potato and started being at home. Just became stout and my sense was getting down. Whenever we lose, whenever we suffer, whenever we weep, whenever we felt crushed, there comes a hand for rescue - mom. She made me to forget my weakness and diverted me as much as possible. She bought me books, cheered me up with Rubiks and made me feel like I was reborn.
Along with regular medications I started to step out. Morning sunshine burnt me as I wasn't subjected to it for so long. Inabilities aren't inabilities when you believe in your abilities. Earlier a round of Jog made me to wheeze, but when I kept on jogging for some days, it ran far away from me. Slowly but steadily I retrieved my immunity. Just like my physical inability, I find everyone with some mental inability around me. Everything is just a matter of time and practise. If you feel weak, make yourself hard, if you feel low, bounce back to the height of joy, if you feel lost, search yourself in the far wide world. As I said, Life is a limited data plan offer. Delete mind's crippleness and provide some space to download happiness. Life is to live, smile and to spread smile..!