LIFE IS LIKE THAT !!!

Hmmmm….well, today I’ve completed the fourth phase of my life and moved into the fifth phase, I mean, I’ve completed 40 years of my life. First phase upto the age of 10 years…childhood…not much to say. I enjoyed it as all others did. Second phase of the life was upto the age of 20 years… childhood plus adolescent age in which one neither remains child nor becomes man to fight the cruel world. A lot of struggle to get good marks in studies to get admission in good college… luckily, I got admission in Bhagat Singh College as I was in Commerce Stream. During this phase, I also participated in lots of co-curricular activities, NCC, Scouts, etc. However, just as other students might have faced, there was a dark tunnel ahead in front of me and no light was visible at the other end. By the end of second phase, I started preparing for various competitive exams. By the grace of Almighty and with the blessings of my parents and all elders, I cracked various competitive exams by the beginning of my third phase of life and reached the other side of the dark tunnel. Sooner I also cleared the exam for the job in which I am working at present. Third phase saw a lot of hard work. It was the age when one is in a great dilemma as heart says you are still a teenager but mind says No! You have grown up and behave like a man. Somehow, I crossed this hurdle with not much difficulty. I should not forget to mention here that in this phase, like others, I too got married and my two sweet daughters were born during this period. Then entered into the fourth phase of life, which was the most crucial phase in my life. I worked very hard during this phase and finally got settled by the grace of god and with the blessings of all elders and achieved quite a lot professionally, socially and more important financially. However, there were many ups and downs in my life during this phase. Apart from achievements, very tragically, I lost my father, who fought with the cancer very bravely for about one and half year. This was the phase in which I saw life and death very closely. On two occasions during his cancer treatment, the doctors gave up their hands and stopped treating my father as they find no use of further treating him and helplessly, we could not do much but to plead the doctor to continue treat him. But the Almighty might have some different plans to grant some happy moments before taking him into his care and he survived on both the occasions due to his strong determination. During his treatment period, my younger brother’s daughter was born and anyone can saw the happiness on my fathers’ face at that time…. and thereafter, finally the fateful day came on 20th July 2007 when the Almighty took him into his care, the day which I can never ever forgot. I still try to follow on the path shown by my father. My father’s death taught me some hard realities of life and I also begin to see the life in a different perspective. My approach towards life changed radically and I started thinking on the lines of giving back to the society what I’ve gained from it. To start with, today I celebrated my birthday in a different manner with about 175 orphan and underprivileged children who are housed in an orphanage nearby my house and also distributed dinner and gifts to them. Now I’m entering into the fifth phase of my life and it might be a complete transformation from all the phases which I’ve already completed. I intend to do a lot of work for the society, underprivileged children, needy cancer patients, my Alma Mater and so on… and by the grace of the Almighty, I may able to cross this phase too successfully…… (Well...I’ll also try to lose a few extra pounds which I’ve gained during my fourth phase of life...).