I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69
Its 5:30AM in the morning and my phone is shouting at its loundest to wake me up.
I search my phone with my half eye open to switch off the alarm.
Its time to take a very important decision of my life.. actually everyday
either to go to sleep again or go for jogging.
Most of time jogging wins and i get up of my bed thinking why i am so fat(not that fat actually)
why not i am thin. Fighting with this thought i get ready for jogging.
The park is around 150M away from my home and this 150M is too hard to cover...
more than running itself. When i leave my home i feel completely fit and when i reach at park's gate i can feel the pain in most of my body parts.
I can see lot of people inside of every age group and of both genders doing various activities like gossiping, strolling, yoga(i think), playing etc.
Now i am inside park and i start running.
The first part of track i cover easily or very comfortably making my way through the group of people walkin side by side covering whole width of the track.
If this group is not of girls then i put my hand on one of shoulder and push him aside, i dont even care to say excuse me.. for two reasons... firstly i dont want to lose my breathing pattern secondly i dont want to say excuse me 50 times!!!!
If this group is of girls then i just reach as close as possible to them and wait that anyone might notice and give my side(trust me.. this thing never happened) then i just get off the track pass them and again get on track and continue.
While running i can feel the slightest inclination of the track and wonder why i never felt while i walk on the same track.
Now i covered half of track and now i m sweating and trying hard to finish the track.
I see lot of people some are feather weight.. by seeing them i think why are not they sleeping at home, some are like .. i think why .. why .. why.. and then wonder how.. how they manage such fat in their body.
Some ladies and girls come so well prepared (prepared in the sense well dressed) that they are going for kitty party or date.
Now i am at final stage of my track trying my level best to finish it and then comes a bench.. two girls sitting there, every morning i see both of them sitting and gossiping(and think girls can gossip any time of the day)
Finally i reach the same point from where i started, totally tired and sweating hard,
and wonder i saw more than 200 people and not even a single pretty girl, may be tomorrow i will get to see one.
(ON THIS DATE TOO I THINK THE SAME THAT I MIGHT SEE SOME PRETTY GIRL TOMORROW :) )
Its now time to go home and sweat a little more.
5:30 AM
SUPPORT
THIS IS WRITTEN BY ONE OF MY GOOD FRIEND.
AND HEARTIEST THANKS TO MY FRIEND FOR GIVING IT TO ME
TO PUBLISH IT ON MY BLOG
Someone to say I am there,
When favour seems nowhere,
Someone to carry you when you groan,
When you cannot even lift your feet or even walk your own.
Someone to put hand behind and say "Don't cry"
Someone to motivate you for progress ans say "try"
There should be one that stands with you when everybody has quit,
When your own people have dropped you in a dirty pit.
When you are being accused for just no reasons at all
Someone is there to support you and prevent you from fall
When world seems to end,
And you hope seems to bend,
When no peace of mind sustains,
When joy ignores your pains,
When people disagree,
And unbound is the sorrowed sea.
There should be one to hold your hand,
wipe all the tears with his magic wand,
An ethereal joy you are able to find,
when someone puts an arm around
and says "Never Mind".
POWER OF DREAMS...
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius was born on 22 November 1986 in Sandton, Gauteng Province(South Africa) with congenital absence of the fibula in both legs.
When he was 11 months old, his legs were amputated halfway between his knees and ankles.
He attended the Pretoria Boys' High School where, between the ages of 11 and 13, he played rugby union in the school's third XV team, water polo and tennis. He also played water polo and tennis at the state level.
In addition, Pistorius took part in club Olympic wrestling. After a serious rugby knee injury, he was introduced to running in January 2004 while undergoing rehabilitation.
He took part in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens and came third overall.
Despite falling in the preliminary round for the 200 metres, he qualified for the final. He went on to win the final with a world record time of 21.97 seconds.
Following years he set world records in 100, 200 and 400 mts in Paralympic World Cup.
Pistorius was invited by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to take part in what would have been his first international able-bodied event, the 400-metre race at the IAAF Grand Prix in Helsinki, Finland, in July 2005. He was unable to attend because of school commitments.
On 13 July 2007, Pistorius ran in the 400-metre race at Rome's Golden Gala and finished second
in an able bodied athelete meet.
Pistorius has ambitions of competing in other able-bodied events, specifically at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
Pistorius has been the subject of criticism because of claims that his artificial limbs, which are J-shaped carbon-fibre prosthetics called the "Cheetah Flex-Foot" manufactured by Icelandic company Össur, give him an advantage over able-bodied runners.
on 14 January 2008 the IAAF ruled Pistorius's prostheses ineligible for use in competitions conducted under the IAAF rules, including the 2008 Summer Olympics. Pistorius has called the decision "premature and highly subjective" and pledged to continue fighting for his dream.
Pistorius subsequently appealed against the adverse decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and appeared before the tribunal at the end of April 2008.
On 16 May 2008, the CAS reversed the IAAF's ban, clearing the way for Pistorius to try and qualify for the Olympics
Though he is not fast enough to qualify for any of 100, 200 or 400 mts event but still the South African government can take him to Beijing in 800 mts relay race.
I am waiting for this event very eagerly to see a man with no legs competing with other able bodied athelets at the highest level.
He will make world stand and notice him and he will prove that the only limitation is the limitation in your dreams.
He will going to be the happiest man alive on earth that day.
His sporting motto is: "You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have."
Just one thought comes in my mind
Is it win of courage and dreams over disabilities
Or is it win of science over human
Or is it win of courage, dreams and science over disablities and human.
