Short story Review

Stories are part and parcel of human life. We are the outcome of the stories we have heard. As Yuval Noah Harari has rightly pointed out in his book 'Sapiens' , stories are the most distinguished feature that enabled Homosapiens to survive and led to cognitive revolution.

The book I have chosen is "Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul". It's an anthology of the handpicked short stories written under various topics. One among them was "A Drive to Dance". It's a real life story of a well-known sope opera actress and a dancer, Sudha Chandran. Her life itself is a great lesson that shows everything is possible if we have the mental toughness to achieve that. 

Sudha Chandran was a born dancer. She gave her first stage performance at the age of eight and has received many noteworthy awards. But her ill-fate played its role and she met with a terrible accident. Due to that, her leg was amputed seven and a half inches below the knee. Thereby she became a girl of wooden leg and crutches. She was healthy but couldn't bear with people sympathise her. She sought help from a famous doctor and got a flexible prosthetic leg which enabled her to rotate her legs even for the most complicated dance steps. 

However practicing the prosthetic limb was not that easy. She had to practise walking at first and gradually dancing. Her leg would bleed whenever the pace of her dance increased and she would feel excruciating pain too. But she never gave up. 

Finally after mastering all the dance positions, she performed on stage again. Two thousand people witnessed her performance and the hall was filled with a roar of applause. She didn't cease with that but went on to become a popular actress in movies and soap operas.

When asked for the reason behind her success she said, "In my hour of agony and loss, I had the choice of swimming against the tide or drowning. I chose to swim and swim hard." 

Indeed. We may have many such disheartening Obstacles in our life and also we do have within us, the strength to overcome it. Our success lies in finding that out.

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