Stranger things in our world

 There are strange things, and then there are stranger things that exists or happen in this world and universe that is not known commonly. Over so many years, we have came across so many things , ideas and processes that have made me re-think my notion of the environment we live in. It includes many everyday concepts which we believed but I was surprised to know the complete truth. In addition, there are trivial questions we ask that have interesting if we look at them objectively. 

Light that travels faster than light!

Did you know that in some cases, light can travel faster than the accepted speed of light? Light travels 300 million meters in a second, but this is in a vacuum. When light travels in another medium, it's speed differs. Based on the medium, it can be slower or faster. Because space is a vacuum, the speed of light is constant , but apart from that , it depends on the environment it is travelling in and the speed of light will become a very rough estimate. For example, light will travel slower than diamond as compared to air. And in plasma, like ionosphere , light will travel faster. Basically, it is the refractive index which will tell how much the speed of light will differ because of the medium as compared to air. 

Idea for a parallel universe 

Quantum entanglement is a very strange concept to me , to be very honest. I have always wondered why such strange concepts exist? In a simple layman's concept, it essentially means that the two particles are linked in a way that they can exchange information or interact even when they are not physically connected. In simple terms, if me and my friend are two particles are two particles , we can exchange information with each other even without any technical or physical aid. The phenomenon has boggled scientists for decades, because although the basic premise is clear, the questions that arise beyond the basic idea makes the concept tough to understand. But the idea that two particles maybe undergoing the same effects even if they are separated by a galaxy does pushes the idea of  parallel universe close to understanding, i.e. there maybe another you in another universe in the same or different setup , but what you do here affects the other you and vice-versa. 

Is water wet? 

Sometimes we ask trivial question, which sounds stupid at first , but they are insightful. For example, how wet is water? For example, water wets things, but is water itself wet? And how can we quantify such a thing? A simple experiment can answer questions like this. Take a dry tissue ( it will definitely have 0% water). If we slightly dab this tissue with water , it will have less than 0.0001% water, and if we pour a jug of water , the percentage of water in tissue will increase and if we drop the tissue paper in swimming pool , it would be more than 99% wet. But, even if you drop the paper in teh ocean it will never be 100% wet , because the system still contains the tissue paper. This means that the water was still able to wet the paper. By chemistry, water is wet because water molecules interact with each other. The only arguments against this are in the semantics of the term “wet”, i.e. something along the lines of fire burning things but not burning itself. But if we are here to discuss science, getting caught in semantics will definitely get us nowhere. Hence, in short, water is wet.

Can black get blacker? 

Let's talk about colors. There's black and then there's Musou black and then there's vanta black. They are all black but they get blacker. What does this means?  If a room is painted black inside completely and a bulb is placed , we will still be able to see the inside contours of the room vaguely. But if it is painted with vantablack, only bulb can be seen. This is because black will absorb everything. Therefore, if the black component is increased , more and more light can be absorbed. Vantablack absorbs 99.965% of light . However, researchers around the globe are aiming to develop a perfect black body which can absorb 100% of light. Let's see , how much blacker can a black become eventually. 

Your brain can store entire internet and even more!

Neurons in the brain can make about 15000 connections each.

Although a final word on this is a long way off, it is estimated that the human brain can store over 1000 terabytes of information. This kind of estimate can be larger or smaller than the actual value, but it a rough estimate. Scientists have found that the human mind can store information in 26 different ways to code “bits”, unlike only 0s and 1s (binary) in a computer. This estimate can vary largely from person to person, but compared to technology, our brain is an underutilized superpower. Our brain has over 85 billion neurons, each of which can form about 15000 connections with other neurons. Formation of these connections implies creation of memories or information in the brain. So, to put it simply, human brain can make 1275 trillion memories! It would take much more than 300 years of continuous TV as well as the internet to fill up that space! In order to run a computer having this capability, over 1 gigawatt of power would be required, while our brain does the same on just 20 watt of power. Did your mind just blow your mind?

Science defying wonders of the world. 

There are some truly unbelievable places in the world where the phenomenon seems like magic, but is actually not. For example, if you pour water down on the Hoover Dam, Nevada, USA, the water will splash up instead of go down. This gravity defying water is because the very strong updraft from the dam. Similar phenomenon happens in reverse waterfalls where the draft of wind is so high that water is forced to flow up, creating a reverse waterfall. Such waterfalls can be seen in Faroe Islands and Naneghat, Maharashtra, India. Another wonder that exists is a magnetic hill, and many such hills are recognized in the world. One such hill exists in Leh, India, where the hill appears to go up and if you leave your car in neutral, it will automatically start moving “uphill”. This is nothing but optical illusion where the surroundings themselves are skewed due to the absence of the visibility of the horizon. So a slope going downhill will appear to go uphill due to optical illusion.

How much time is 1 second?

I know this is not a strange or fascinating new piece of information. But I still add it to this list because not many people know about it. The measurement of time has seen several methods throughout history. Sundials measured time in degrees. The earliest mechanical clocks divided an hour into parts (quarters, halves, thirds or even 12), but it wasn’t uniform. Then pendulum clocks were developed, followed by quartz crystal-based clocks. But the problem with these clocks was that they were subject to mechanical, environmental or other geographical problems, which would make time non-uniform for different people. For example, we know that pendulum clocks slowed down over time and needed to be powered with key every now and then, which would make time non-uniform for two people in the same city. Hence, atomic clocks are used as a standard since 1967. According to it, one second is precisely “the time of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom” (at a temperature of 0 K). This line basically means that a particular atom is excited under very specific conditions and the resulting time is noted for a fixed period of radiation. Such atomic clocks are highly precise and are not affected by environmental or geographical changes. There are laboratories that maintain the standard of these clocks in different countries. For example, the Indian Standard Time (IST) is maintained by the CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.
Did you know that in the Vedic units of time, truti is given as the smallest unit of time? Although different metrics were defined for different purposes, one truti is the time taken by light to travel through three tresarenus (combination of 6 atoms each).
There are a lot of things within you, in this world and even outside of it. You just have to keep your mind open to inputs and knowledge. Everything has a reason. So, search for the truth behind the illusion. Once you see the reality, you cannot see the illusion anymore. Point to ponder?

Time: Decoding the cosmos or chaos

 Time is a concept which hasn’t been grasped completely by scientists till today. While there is a lot left to understand about time, we have made a clock for mankind that helps us distinguish between past, present and future, and makes sure that everyone on Earth is on the same page. Humans created time zones on Earth to keep the whole world on the same schedule. But this is not the absolute reality. In fact, there is no absolute time. Time is always relative to something. Even our time on Earth is relative to our Sun and the position of Earth with respect to it. So, what is time exactly? Is it an illusion? Let us address this question today.

Firstly, it is important to understand the direction of time. We know that time is moving in a place with respect to another place. Being on Earth, time moves faster with respect to an astronaut in the space station. He ages slower as compared to us on Earth. This is because of something called time dilation. So that means if among a set of twins, one is an astronaut who has returned to Earth after having spent two years on the space station, he would be about twenty milliseconds younger than his twin on Earth. While this isn’t much difference, my point is that someone farther, say on Pluto, would have aged even slower due to this concept. But, does that mean time is still moving forward for everyone, at different speeds?

Speed is the distance we move in a fixed amount of time. So, time is the distance we move with a fixed speed. To put it in simple words, you will take less time to travel a distance if you move fast, and more time if you move slowly.

According to Einstein’s theory, as fast as we move, time moves slower. So if we were to accelerate to the speed of light, time would have almost stopped. Is it possible then to have time move in the reverse direction? Now you may come up with an explanation that when we look at the stars, we are actually looking at the past because the light from those stars has come to us after so many years. While it is partially true, I don’t think we are looking at the past. We are looking at the present in the star’s time. It is just that we got to see the star a little later and hence is our past. This topic is still debatable because nobody has been able to come up with a definitive idea about how time passes. Ultimately, I see time as an illusion, as it is enabling us to measure change in our space. The reality we see is only the change in space around us. This does not give us a direction of time.

There is a theory of mirror universe going around the scientific discussions for a while now, where it is suggested that the Big Bang resulted into two universes where time moves in opposite directions, i.e. if we move from past to future, the mirror universe moves from future to past from our perspective. But from their perspective, we are moving from their future to past, i.e. an anti-universe. Another discussion that came up in recent times is that this anti-universe existed before the Big Bang, which collapsed later. Then the Big Bang happened and it expanded into our current universe. While these theories are up for debate and are equally likely to be wrong, we can agree that they provide interesting perspectives for research. Although popular media like comic books and the Star Trek series have explored the concept of mirror universe extensively, because despite the absence of physical proof yet, it does make for a spectacular treat for the imagination. These however, still don’t explain the concept of time, although we understand passage of time.

There is yet another concept given by none other than Isaac Newton. He explained the concept of absolute time, which is independent of everything. According to him, absolute time is understood mathematically and progresses at a consistent pace in the entire universe. So if we put this concept in a simple language very vaguely, we are looking at a clock in the universe that is essentially micromanaging every event in the universe, including local time at every point in the universe. This directly contradicts Einstein’s theory of time being relative. But if we were to include the concept of frame of reference, where we look at events happening from a particular perspective, we will end up with time being relative if we change our frame of reference. Even if we somehow solve this puzzle, this theory implies that the universal time started from zero. It essentially means that there was an inception of the universe in some form at time zero. However, it flies in the face of the law of conservation of energy, which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Hence this also fails to answer our question.

Let us take a different route to understanding the concept of time. We may be able to create a definition of time if we can understand its origin or end. But does time have an origin at all, or did it always exist? Assuming that the Big Bang was the way our universe was created, universe existed within an infinitesimally small point which was extremely dense. This is known as a singularity. Then the big bang happened and the universe started expanding. It is theorized that as you approach a singularity, space and time lose meaning as time approaches zero. However, time itself does not approach zero. It appears to be zero to an observer outside of the singularity. In simple terms, if I were to fall into a singularity while continuously send you signals, you would see my signals slowing down to a stop. Going by this theory, did time exist before the Big Bang? It is a concept hard to put into simple words, but in a very crude way, it would appear that there was no time before Big Bang. But if that was the case, then there should be an absolute time of the universe, which isn’t the case. So, it leads us to the answer that time always existed, but in a different frame of reference having different intervals. Again, these are theories and nobody has lived 13.8 billion years to give an eye witness account!

Moving ahead with this knowledge, this is an interesting fact to consider. Let’s say you are walking to a place you have to reach. You look up and see your friend going past you in a car to reach the same place. So the time that has passed is different for both of you because of the different speeds. However, the time after which we will be able to see the current event happening in Proxima Centauri (the star closest to Earth after our Sun) will be the same as the time if we were to put a bright torch light near Proxima Centauri and see it from the Earth. This is because light travels at the same speed everywhere in the universe. Hence, time is only an illusion that enables us to measure ourselves in our surroundings. Before I push you into an existential crisis, I point to one perspective that might help us look at our lives in a promising way. Your life is only a sequence of events being placed one after the other. The period of time in which this happens is not important to note in the absolute sense because it won’t be a logical way of measurement. If you picked up a book from your table and placed it on your nightstand, this sequence of events may have happened 10 times slower compared to Earth time to an observer in the Andromeda galaxy because their time moves 10 seconds for every passing second on the Earth. But from their perspective, our time moves 0.1 seconds for every passing second on their planet in the Andromeda galaxy. Who is fast, or who is slow in this case? Actually no one is fast or slow. It is a matter of perspective.

So, time is neither a reality, nor an illusion. It is basically a perspective. It is only an indicator of the sequence of events happening in our lives, so that we can place them in order and create a “timeline”. While this timeline enables you to look at your life objectively from the perspective of your environment, it is not the absolute reality. Point to ponder?

EMSP.

Congratulations!! You have been academically accepted for the European Master of Science in Photonics. The day I received this email was the most happiest day of my life.From the day , I received my admit ,I started counting days to go to Belgium . To be true on my side, I did not have any information or a contact in EMSP so that I could use the opinion of someone with their experience in this master program. I just googled about the Master courses in Photonics in Europe , and EMSP came across. and went across the information given on their website and reviews online - and was excited to apply ( This Master Program is gonna be excited ) and this is exactly true , I am not bragging about it.

I took a flight from Bangalore to Abu Dhabi and from Abu Dhabi to Brussels ( The capital city of Belgium). I did had a layover in Bangalore too, as I come from a mediocre city , Raipur in India which does not has a international airport. While I was sitting in Bangalore airport alone, A weird feeling cropped up inside me on the day when I was sitting in airport , thinking how would everything go , how would be the new culture , a new country, a new way of living far away from home 8000 kilometers away across the ocean. Leaving your parents , home country is definitely difficult because due tot his huge distance you can't visit them often. But, deep inside I had a feeling too, I was going into one of the best school of Photonics in Europe and so everything would be nice, but it turned out to be amazing. The initial days I felt a little home sick, but thanks to Nikhil ( he is my classmate ) , he made me feel Ghent so homely . I was also lucky enough to get a accommodation from my home country , so this made my life here much easier. Also, I would like to mention that finding accommodation in Ghent is so difficult , so make sure the first thing after you get a admit, search for rooms.

I always had a fear of living in European city because of the language barrier. I thought I would feel always left out among the locals, because they will talk and laugh, and have fun in a language you would never understand. But, Ghent is a truely a international city and . If you love parties and socializing , join the Erasmus Group. They are a group if exchange students from across the European Universities. Also, in EMSP there is a good diversity and we are like a family, we do help each other.

I love this medieval ancient, yet modern city of Ghent. Ghent is one the charming"darlings" of Belgium. I have been to Leuven, Brussels , Dinant , Genk , Ardennes, yet I love this city the most . It's so different than what I saw in internet. Internet can't do justice to any place and this is quite true. The Gothic Archietcture of Cathedral, the eternal silence of sunsets across the river , and the colorful bubbles at city center are some of the things I can always keep in falling with love. Graslei and Korenlei are one of my favourite streets. These streets are so magical during the day as well as in night. And also, not to forget the amazing fries and waffles . If your first love is chocolate, trust me you will love Belgium. Want to fancy student life, just go to Overpoortstraat ,grab a beer and you will find the craziest of students there. I had a impression that no one here would speak english, because their native language is Dutch, but this conception turned out to be wrong. Almost everyone , old and young can speak English. So , whenever you get lost , don't worry. Belgians are among the most helping and friendly people. With Belgium lying at the center of Europe, it's so easy to fulfil your dream of travelling to all the European countries. Paris is just 2 hours away from Brussels , and Amsterdam too.

Ghent University is one of the best highly ranked university in the world and our professors are so friendly, nice and their knowledge incredibly amazing. The academic staff are helpful, caring and make your arrival in Belgium so smooth. When in problem, they are always there. There was a introductory session by Ghent University common for all students and also some fun activities like Kayaking, Going to Belfry tower , to have a magnificent aerial view of Gent and many others!!( Make sure to check your emails before your arrival , where you register and just a tip, Kayaking is filled up very soon ) . There was a kick-off event by Photonics Group . Every little detailed information was given which made me comfortable enough to plan out my studies for 2 years ( This is really not a piece of cakewalk ).The professors are so kind and prompt to every question you have. So the transition from culture in my home country to a European culture was so smooth. Now I feel so confident about the perfect career choice I made. In the kick-off event , the information was so crystal clear that I could figure out my way through these 2 years ( I have a sound plan of going for international internship to CEA-LETI, france , I will share my experience , if Corona Virus outbreak doesn't fuck my plan ). Also, since our program and our professors both at Ugent and VUB have so many industrial contacts , that getting a job won't be like walking through thorns in a garden of roses.

Coming from Engineering background, the first semester courses are very challenging and difficult . I didn't even have a space to breathe in .The first semester courses are fundamental physics and some mathematics ( I have a math phobia, but thanks to professor Peter, he made those lectures amazingly well planned and a cakewalk for me to study). The courses are difficult but not impossible. Everyone does it , because the professors do explain the concepts very well. They are brilliant, experts and genius , I would say . Although, I would mention, that balancing your time is very important. Well, I gave six exams in 20 days , so that was a bit more challenging.

The second semester is rather easy and less dense completely manageable, but you have gotta do more lab reports. The abstract concepts ( For me all the Fourier Transforms, Periodic Structures was abstract and imaginary) , but when I actually did them in labs , I realise how fascinating they are. I couldn't say much about the second semester now, because it went all online because of this corona virus outbreak. Also, after one semester in Belgium, you get used to culture , and the lifestyle which makes life so easy.

To get a truely international experience , this master program offers many exchange oppertunities to almost all the Best Universities in Europe like ITMO, EPFL, DTU, therefore, you also have a chance to experience another European Culture. All the professors have a extensive industrial network, so finding a international internship is not so difficult. I too got one in my first semester !!. If I could go for my internship ( Thanks to this corona outbreak making me confuse about doing my internship ) , I will surely share my experience.

If you have any question ( Don't worry , you can also ask silly questions to me ) get in touch using my contact.Always Happy to Help .

Being beautiful is good , but being good is beautiful

What exactly do you think being good means? I’m sure I can guess a few standard responses. Helping others, contributing to the society, maintaining cleanliness, not being rude, being compassionate etc etc. Well, I don’t really consider them as being attributes of a good person. These are logical things that are expected of any human being. If any of these qualities aren’t being fulfilled by you or anyone, you really urgently have to re-evaluate your approach to life.

I’m basically talking about being good within yourself. Your first relationship is with yourself. Don’t you think you need to take heed of your own self before stepping out to take heed of anyone else? No I don’t mean positivity or patience. They’re essential attributes as well for a human being to exist in this world. I intend to point to that good, which lies within you by heritage, by lineage. The good that you’re born with is the magnitude of good your life can become. The only reason we are not able to make most of us, or even identify ourselves is because we are held by shackles of the modern version of pre – specified streams of paths in life. In all these years of people trying to dictate us to make our own path, they ended up creating a completely new set of paths, simply replacing the options in the same system. But the problem with these new set of options is that they lack the holistic approach to complete knowledge. The point of taking a path is to reach a destination, not a stage in the middle of a maze. The “modern” school of thought has left everyone in a situation in which we make our way through the maze only to reach a dead end where we get a stage to project our thoughts, giving us an illusion of achievement. What we don’t realize is that we left our quest to make the way out of the maze.

So what is being “good” got to do with all this? Being good is doing yourself a service of giving a direction to your life and a purpose to your actions. Being good is to identify where you come from, using your complete potential, harness the intellect of your lineage and build up on it. Being good is to do justice to your own capabilities and harnessing the power in your brilliance and perception.

When you start working on your own goodness, you considerably improve your knowledge, perception and holistic development. This automatically projects outside of you in the way you handle people, situations, career or life in general. Communication becomes cerebral and wholesome which would make the world a much more orderly place than it is right now.

Isn’t it better to make your life beautiful by being good than make it good by being beautiful?

I lost it along the way .

I’m here. I’m here. You can’t avoid me! You can’t run away from me!

Whenever a situation of suffering comes up, we aren’t able to bear it. C’mon face it. Even if we put on your adult mind and say let’s look for a solution, at the first instant the child inside you wants to come out crying and say please help me. But then, we suppress the cry and go on to think like an adult.

We may be hurt by something or someone. But what do we do about it at that moment? We constantly entertain ourselves, watch movies, listen to music, socialize or resort to alcohol. We totally block the child within ourselves which wants love and care at that moment, because we do not want to experience that suffering.

We all go through painful times in life. When we come across a similar situation, we want to forget about it and stuff the memory deep down the unconscious mind. We do not ever want to face the child that we are shoving further down inside us by this.

The wounded child is there, always, and we don’t want to feel it. That child is further being wounded and needs our attention, but we turn away from it, afraid we may scrape old wounds and be hurt all over again. Just because we ignore it, doesn’t mean that child isn’t there. Running away this way doesn’t help us get past the suffering. It only prolongs the suffering.

To tackle these situations, we must make use of the awakening that is etched into us genetically. The first thing to do is to express. We see it evidently in children, that at any point, they express themselves very well. They do not hide emotions, they come out and cry if they want to, laugh if they want to, smile if they want to, fear if they want to. All these emotions come out if and when they want to. They do not hesitate from expression.

As adults, we are enforced to a society having fixed set of accepted emotions and situations. A situation is faced with two reactions from the society that surrounds you. It applies to all kinds of situations. If something delightful happens in your life, one section is happy for you, while the other is left grudging. If something uncalled for happens, while one section of your society will feel bad for you, being your well – wishers, the other section of people are only contented about it. Either ways, one section is happy and the other isn’t.

When we know this is going to be the situation anyway, then why don’t we express ourselves and make our views evident about our own life?

The goal must be to make ourselves socially compliant, while maintaining personal happiness. A simple way is to do it as well as maintain it, has been ingrained into us since we were born.

We may have lost it along the way.

The trick is to use the adult mind to think while letting the child inside you, express emotions. Once we get the hold of it, we will be able to control our mind along with letting any kind of feelings, whether resentment and distress, or, contentment and comfort, flow out and not get clogged inside us.

When faced with a situation of suffering, cry your heart out. That is human instinct and it is NOT AT ALL inapt to cry. Once the child in you has come out with the emotion, you know what to tackle in life, whether it is sorrow or regret.

When faced with a painful memory once again, do not run away from it. All painful memories have a good time before them. Live for them and not for remorse.

When you are hurt physically, it is only natural for us to apply some kind of medicine and make it feel better. We do not cover it with clothes and pretend it never happened. Because it hurts to look back it, but then we eventually have to, since we need to be well for our life to continue. Similarly, getting hurt emotionally doesn’t mean resort to other things to take our attention away from it, because eventually you need to go back to tend to it in order for you to life a normal life. So let the child within you come out and talk. Let it talk so that it knows why it isn’t getting the love and care it wants at that moment.

Nurse that child, don’t push it down because it only yearns for love. Listen to your inner child; it knows what’s wrong. This Children’s day, learn to help the child within you, and see many problems of your life getting solved like child’s play!

Lost is definitely a good place to be in.

A girl… lost in her dreams… wild, beautiful, enigmatic dreams,

With her wide open eyes.

Everything blurred in front of her,

All she is able to see is her dream!

“Slappppppp!!!!!!”

‘What are you into Enigma!? Concentrate on the book that’s in front of you!

This girl can think of everything else than what is needed to think!’ -Mom

‘Mom I am studying…. And trying to go through….’ -Enigma

‘What do you mean by go through?’ -Mom

‘I studied the law of gravitation and was imagining that everything has an antonym.

What if we find an element that repels gravitation?

Just like magnets which attracts and reflects.

We won’t need extra efforts to stay away from gravitation to fly.

What ifff……….’ -Enigma

“Tappp on head!”

‘End these useless imaginations,

Read that is written,

Learn that is written,

Thorough that is written!’ -Mom

‘Mom can’t the written be wrong?’ -Enigma

‘I don’t know dear… We are too poor to think of all this. I just know if you learn that is written, you will get good marks and you will get a good job!’ -Mom

‘But thinking, imagining doesn’t require money! So what’s about poverty? Whatever I am studying is not whole… it is just up to the level we (mankind) have reached… We need to grow from here. Studying can help us understand about other’s research but we need to believe in ourselves and take it forward…’ -Enigma

‘Enigma I don’t get what you are saying but I just know you need to study! If you want to dream you can join the homeless club of madness down the street!’ -Mom

‘Mom… What good will I be, being normal like everyone else? Why not do exceptional and grace the whole world?’ -Enigma

‘Yeah-Yeah… funny! Now you better be studying else you’ll not get your snacks today!’ -Mom

‘Ok Mom!’ -Enigma

It’s the reflection of our society!

Don’t we encapsulate our mind and force over selves to follow the league set by society norms?

Aren’t we stopped from doing what we love, for doing what they think is good in their terms?

Doesn’t our dreams shatter or vanish with high demand of society for our time?

Dreaming is what makes us believe in things that does not exist and makes possibility of them to exist down the line.

Give us hope, Give us happiness and Give us enthusiasm.

Give your dream wings,

Let them fly high,

Much higher than the set parameters.

Nurture them, believe in them,

Don’t be too realistic,

Being realistic just save you from getting hurt,

But dreaming gives you a whole new world!

If you dream…

You believe in possibilities,

You believe in probabilities,

You believe in magic and yeah you may make them happen!

There is always a possibility if you don’t be too stubbornly realistic.

If you cannot dream it! You cannot do it!

Imagine if no one dreamt of flying then no one could have built an airplane.

Nowadays education limit our boundaries and sets us in a box to believe in proven rules and regulations.

But rules are made to break!

Fly out the chamber, Look beyond the parameters.

You can see the world better from high above!

Believe me! It’s way clearer from the top.

Dream is the 1st step…

Implementation is the journey

Created history is a legacy!

Ask your legacy followers to dream beyond your legacy and implement it to create their own.

Whatever we study is a legacy but we need enhancements and

We can only do it if we

D ream! I magine! & I mplement!

Upside Life- Fight through the worst of your times

It's through Challenges I have been living. The struggles have been real, but I never had the thought of give up until today.

"When I was born, I wasn't even breathing , I was put on life support. Soon, I got into coma and my life took a upside turn.
The doctors told my parents that I wouldn't survive , but my parents wanted to fight for me , for them  I was their first child. I fought and braved all the storms to come back home.
At the age of 3 , I did not have the ability to listen , or to speak. Everyone , used to say she will never speak , put her in a special school. She is not a normal girl, unfortunately I had been listening it since a quite few years  . Among all this , my dad had enough courage to get me a transplant , my ears were not capable enough to listen. The surgery became complicated, till they found internal bleeding in my brain. Doctors gave me a 96 percent death rate , they said go home, but my dad looked at my glass being 4 percent full and not 96 percent empty.

The doctors tried everything but nothing worked- once a doctor said "Just pray that she passes away soon". He even said there is no chance of survival, take your girl home and allow her to live with family for next few months, because there is nothing that we can do. But we do have choices in life , and the choices we make can redefine and re-mould our future. My dad asked one question, I don't know what are the chances of my daughter dying is , I just want to know what are chances my daughter surviving is? They even said if she would be a miracle baby , she would survive. I truly believe that outside of love , HOPE is the most powerful word in English dictionary. I survived , fortunately. I am among the lucky ones, but I am not the lucky ones because that I am still alive , I am the lucky ones becuase I wasn't my dad. My dad had it tough , how can he see his daughter dying in front of him. Doctors said to my dad, she will never go to school, she would never play games, she would be a housebound baby, and even if she reaches her teenage years , it would be a miracle.

But I made it & that day , my dad got a second life. However, life wasn't easy for me - my parents would be pitied when they would walk with m e on street , "Aapki beti toh kabhi bolegi hi nhi". I started going to school, but I had no friends, because I couldn't speak that well. I still listen , that my Hindi isn't that god, but who knows, I have came out of mouth of death two times.

My dad worked on my speaking skills, taught me how to walk, play games and make me grew like a normal,healthy baby .There were a lot of hiccups along the way. I had my first glandular fever when I was 12,  and people kept on telling me that I wouldn't do it. So maybe , I made sure I could really do it. I had my first bacterial meningitis when I was 15 , but I was lucky enough to get a whooping 9.6/10 in my standard 10th along with the best young artist at state level competition . I wasn't that special child, but I was something extraordinary. But you know Life is like a roller coaster , you can get to pinnacle point in your life and it could be taken away in a heart beat. I survived brain fever when I was 17 , and still managed to get 93% in my 12th exams. I couldn't manage to make to most of prestigious engineering colleges , and everyone start blaming me for my brain fever., I was a depressed girl, I thought life wasn't fair and I would pray every night that I wouldn't wake up in morning. I just wanted God to take me. But for every time I was knocked, I always remember what my dad told me, it doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down, how many times you get up truely determines the quality of life.

Until, then I have been fighting all through which came to my path till today when the thought of death arrived today.  But not to forget ,  my dad being my constant motivation. He has been always saying , I am proud of you , you braved enough storms to see where you stand , you are not my ordinary girl, you are one extra-ordinary girl.

Shoot for the moon, even you fall you will land among the stars.