Seconds, turned to minutes, minutes to hours, hours to days, and days to weeks. It was after (quite) a few weeks of my going to school that my parents started getting comfortable with the whole idea of school again and of me being left on my own again. If you remember, my mother was originally staying with me in school for the entire duration of my school day. But, eventually, after lots and lots of support and care by the school and my fellow schoolmates, she soon started dropping me off, going back home to get her own stuff done, and then coming to pick me up directly at the end of my school day.
Make no mistake folks, it isn’t easy to be able to take such a (although seemingly simple) huge step like this, especially after a brain haemorrhage of such a scale has happened with your son. I suppose I owe that to the tremendous love, support, and care shown by my entire school and how they have helped me grow from strength to strength.
I did have many firsts while embarking on my second school journey, but perhaps one of my most memorable one would be when I got to give my first-ever motivational speech. The prefectorial board of my school was having their annual camp, and they asked me to give a motivational speech as the in-house guest speaker. Quite so, after multiple tiny internal anxiety attacks, loads of practice and a wonderful audience later, I gave my first ever motivational speech. To my surprise, a well-received one too. I suppose that is what got the ball rolling and then, there was no turning back. Later that day, while talking to my senior supervisor, I realised that I wanted to share my “Lazarus” experience and everything that I learnt from it with more and more students. That gave me the idea of writing this blog (among many others).
And soon after, I got my chance. My school was hosting its annual TEDx event. I auditioned for it, and gave my own TEDx talk titled “Colours to life”. Pre-injury, it had been one of my many dreams to give a TEDx talk. And seeing that dream come true, even after all that had happened, even after not being the “perfectly normal” human out there, truly gave me a tremendous boost in many senses. A school journey that had begun with such memorable events surely would turn out to be even more so, right folks??? Stay tuned …
