Ordinary yet Great

I’m sure each and every one of you have once in your life bent down to think, sigh and complain about your own life. Many a times you even end up comtemplating that your life is the most lamentable among all species of homo sapiens that ever lived. I too like anybody else was one of them until I met this person.

I met him at my college. His designation and occupation you ask? He is what they refer to as a 'security guard'. I approached him only because I had an assignment but talking to him just triggered my brains to learn about his genesis.

He introduced himself as Vishal Deshmukh, a 34 year old man from a small village called talukamara, in Solapur, Maharashtra.His educational qualification had me shocked. He is a graduate along with a diploma degree in ITI electronics. It just made me more curious. I wanted to know how he had ended up as a watchman. He declared that he was working for 9 years under a government undertaking contract in J.J hospital Mumbai, when all of a sudden before he could even say “knife”, the government administration dismissed the whole batch of employees. This incident had just sent him to mental pressure and eventually made him a victim of depression. His newly married life was also being man handled by the society with the birth of a girl child in the family. The society came to give their condolences for the birth of a girl child in the family as if someone had died. He slowly became a victim of panic disorder. His friends thought that he was mad. Their advices were to take him to a baba of some sort for some puja. “Mereko toh pata tha na….Kyu ki Mai pada likha hai yeh sab bimaari hai….” he said.

He met a psychiatrist under whose supervision he struggled for 2 hard years. “Yeh wapas thik nahi hoga” that's what the doctors said. It was his determination and will power to live again that penetrated through the harsh clouds of impossibility.

When asked about his present job as a security guard and the ruin of his professional career by the government, he said “abhi labour court mein case chal raha hai lekin ab government se kaun ladega?”

His take on the ruling government is that they have done nothing for the farmers. Neither have they gotten any privileges nor have their debts been cleared.

He struggles each day to meet the needs of the family.its not that only famous people do great things. Each individual is a fighter and a hero.

But above all ,when you feel that your life is worthless, remember, you are not alone in this war for the struggle of survival.

------ Cerullo Justin