ARE YOU HAPPY?

What will you say when some one asks you “How are you?”

Till this morning I had the habit of saying “Am ok”

But today I understood how blessed I was.

Do not know what marked the beginning of the day so different, But I am damn sure, today it was really a different and special day in my life…

Today morning when I was going to my work place, I perceived everything in a new and of course a good perspective… I cannot say I saw everything but it is good to say I perceived things different, because I understand that change is not from my eyes but from my brain…

Its my brain that thought different……

You wont believe, today everything that I crossed seemed too beautiful in spite of the fact that they are the same things that I watch everyday… the same crow, the same myna, but today everything seemed too beautiful…

But I was not able to perceive this difference in the morning, it took me a few hours to understand that this day is a special day in my life…….

It was all when I was look after my new patient Mrs.Parvathy I felt all the difference…

Being in the health care sector and that too in Mental Health, I have seen lotta number of people with sufferings.

I have seen people who suffer physically, mentally or in both means but Mrs.Parvathy was something more than everyone else… she was too good enough to teach me what life is and what real happiness is?

SOMETHING ABOUT MRS.PARVATHY:

Mrs.Parvathy is a 83 years old woman brought to our hospital from an old age home. She was brought to our hospital from the home since the people in the home have refused to care for her.

She suffers from all the handicaps of old age.

They are large enough to be listed,

Diabetes

Hypertension

Paralysis

Mental illness

Amnesia

Speaking difficulty

Isolation

Loneliness etc, etc.

She suffers from severe ulceration of her stomach and intestines that she is not able to take proper food, she suffers diarrhea whenever she takes food. She is unaware of urination and passing motion. And the worst thing beyond this is that she feels happy at spending her time in a bathroom, she hates being inside any comfortable room.

Even worse is the fact that she doesn’t have a child to care for her in her old age.

It was when I saw her crying all through the day I understood how terrible is old age, and what real suffering is.

MY RESOLUTION:

Reading the above article about Mrs.Parvathy I think you must be able to understand how terrible old age is?

If this is the condition of a woman who is able to spend several thousands of rupees for her specialized care, imagine the condition of a poor who suffers even for food.

MY RESOLUTION:

Today I have taken up a voth within myself that I must give my parents the most happy and blessed old age free from sufferings and pain.

Not only do wanna care for my parents but to any one who is old. Pray God that

Sufferings of old age be reduced and let the world belong to everyone such that people have someone to love and care for at any time in their life.

Thanks to Parvathy paati, she not only made me understand the sufferings of old age, but made me realise how blessed and happy I Am.