In Celebration of Being Alive . My gloomy thoughts probably stem from an accident I had a few years ago. One minute I was crossing the street with my wife after a lovely meal together, and the next minute a car had hit me and knocked me into my wife. She was thrown into the other lane and struck by a car coming from the opposite direction.
. During the next few days in the hospital, I experienced not only agony and fear but also anger. I could not understand . More and more, as I near the end of my career as a heart surgeon, my thoughts have turned to the consideration of why people should suffer.
Suffering seems so cruelly prevalent in the world today. Do you know that of the million children born this year, million are unlikely to reach the age of one and another six million will die before the age of five? And, of the rest, many will end up as mental or physical cripples . Warm Up Name of the personality Nature of challenge Field of achievement e.g.
Beethovan Hearing impairment Music Demosthenes Helen Keller Mariyappan Thangavelu Mozart John Milton Sudha Chandran There are several physically-challenged people who have lived successful and meaningful lives. Here are a few personalities who have fought great odds and lived a life of blazing achievements. Let’s share what we know about each of them and complete the table below. 12th - - Page why my wife and I had to suffer.
I had eleven broken ribs and a perforated lung. My wife had a badly fractured shoulder. Over and over, I asked myself, why should this happen to us? I had work to do, after all; there were patients waiting for me to operate on them.
My wife had a young baby who needed her care. . My father, had he still been alive, would have said: “My son, it’s God’s will. That’s the way God tests you.
Suffering ennobles you – makes you a better person.” . But, as a doctor,