Personal experiences can be good or bad and then, there is the third kind- learning. This is the fundamental of human development. I was alone that day in my house one aloof afternoon. The scientist in me was struggling to break free and that freedom came in form of an umbrella. The flight stimulator within my pituitary gland was constantly sending in electric pulses. The pulses guided me to our roof. I moved towards the edge of the roof. It was on the third floor. Opened the umbrella and jumped. It was a painful experience but it taught me a valuable lesson that it is necessary to put in thoughts before a full-length commitment.
Our neighbors were very active people and soon I found myself lying in a nursing home bed. Any fall is painful and this one was physical. Call it super strength or technology of fall I came out of the nursing home after 30 days with a hairline fracture in my ankle. This was a great learning process with pain and the understanding is incorporated in me permanently. Like all great men of knowledge and evolution of the human species, I learnt from trial of pain and error of execution.
The result is that the pain itself is overlooked or over-categorized. Research tends to pool around the categories and labels that society has created. As a result, the individual needs of both the victims and offenders are subjugated to the affirmation of this label.
There was a fundamental mistake in the entire execution. The way I jumped with the umbrella suggested that it was more passion of flight than the logistics behind flight that the instrumental. This real painful experience taught valuable lessons. This incident is vividly stored in my memory. Though a bad memory and bad memory hardly stays, I remember it as I saw the lighter side of it and it was more of a learning process. I personally feel that the purpose to gather knowledge is humane and the humanity cannot excel without a structural method and that is what I have learned from this painful experience. This approach towards life is exemplary and the methodical advances to reach this goal could be well imitated.
As Banerjee pointed out that, we only remember those aspects that we want to remember. (Banerjee, 198) I certainly did not want to repeat this error. The fundamentals of success lies in the fact the one should think and analyze. In this context, I started working my way through constant checking and rechecking schedule as a practice of learning and this knowledge was incorporated inside me due to this accident.
Knowledge is an eternal resource and thus even if it is difficult and often painful to gather knowledge it is suggested that one should always venture this pain. This is the brighter side of pain mechanism and the way of human life. It is just that we often do not realize this fact and tends to overlook the brighter side and settle with a back seated attitude of avoiding difficult situation. However, if we brave the difficult situation or the pain involved, the harvest is sweet as in the form of knowledge and success in the long term. It is this experience that made me understand that just the will to know is not enough as long as you do not find a proper way to execute it. For me achieving the goal of success would provide me with that needed launch pad to reach my dreams that started with a fall and pain.
Works Cited
Banerjee, D; 2005; Details from Medical Journals of AIIMS; Auckland: AIIMS; 2005. 198.