Cheers to Life

Raise your hand if you are happy today. Raise your hand if you were happy yesterday. But how many of you ARE GOING TO BE happy tomorrow.  We never know that because happiness had always depended upon something or somebody.

When I was 5 years old, I was happy whenever I saw my mom waiting at my school gate to pick me up. When I was 10 years old, I was happy whenever my Maths teacher was on leave.

In my teenage, I was happy whenever my crush smiled at me.

Wow!!! Cheers to Life!!!

Don’t you all think I am really blessed? Let me narrate my story to you.

When I was 24 years old, I got happily married. On November 14, 2011, we were blessed with a cute little angel. When we thought we are the happiest couple, our excitement got shattered. Our little daughter Sahana was admitted in the ICU due to serious breathing complications. The doctors spoke of medical terms we could least understand. They never gave any positive hope.

Days passed. She was not discharged from the ICU. We started to get nervous. I insisted in seeing her. Nobody has ever seen the child after her birth. After much persuasion, the hospital allowed me to see her. When I went inside the ICU, I saw her lying in the ventilator machine.

My daughter was surrounded with tubes and ventilation support. The motherliness in me wanted to lift her, kiss her and feel her soft skin. But the nurse prohibited me from even touching the child.

I kept looking at her and how much I wished I was holding her in my arms with my husband by my side arguing on whom she resembled much. The situation forbid me from having the little pleasures of life.

When I came out of the ICU, I hugged my husband and said “Honey, she is looking exactly like you”. I was happy that I was the first one to see the child.

Wow!! Cheers to Life!!! Every day I was allowed into the ICU to just have a look at her for 2 minutes. Each day, I was eagerly waiting for THAT 2 minutes. Whenever I went inside, I whispered in her ears, “Dear, Come to us. We are waiting”. She never blinked or moved. She lay there idle.

After a week, she was discharged from the hospital they telling us about the complications of grooming the child.

They said “You have to be a little careful with her, she will not be like the normal children. She requires extra care and attention”.

I turned nocturnal carrying her in my arms throughout the night. It was my mom who carried her in the day time. Though some of my days were 20 hours long, I was happy to be holding her in my arms ………for 20 hours. There were not much progress, so after six months, the doctors advised us to take Sahana to occupational therapy.  From 20 hours in a day to 2 years……

OH MY!!!! Those two years were tough. Was it was a real struggle???? Believe me, it was worth it. My daughter Sahana beat all the milestones the doctors laid for her. She did crawl, she did stand, she did walk and she did talk… The struggle and pain of the 2 intense years vanished when she uttered the word…………. “Amma”… …….’’ Amma’ …..…… A fabulous moment, a fabulous feeling.

WOW – Cheers to life.

Life deals you with a pack of cards, how you choose to take it is in your hands.

When I tonsured my hair as an offering for Sahana‘s good health, my entire family was crying. But I was happy that I had the perfect hair style for summer.

Life, Perhaps, dealt me this - The struggling, the difficult, the sad face

But I chose this, the optimistic, the brighter and happy face.

Though I have a strict mother-in-law, I am happy that I atleast have a mother-in-law to complain about. What is there in life without a little spice.

Is your happiness meter scoring low? Learn to appreciate the little good things around you. We have a lot of things to be happy about.

Cheers to Life!!!