Few years back one of my friend’s mother was diagnosed to be suffering from cancer, and the doctor advised for chemotherapy. The side-effect of this therapy is loss of hair. She lost completely her hair, and when she looked at the mirror she screamed. The worst and sad part of the entire situation was that she also suffers from memory loss. She forgets about the chemotherapy and also the fact that she has lost hair, so whenever she looks at the mirror; it becomes the first experience of seeing herself without hair, so she screams every time she looks at the mirror.
Human beings can get used to any unfortunate event; first time we think that it is the end of the world, but facing it again and again repeatedly, mind gets used to it and resilience is created, and eventually we learn to accept and bounce back. If one has lost the memory, then this mechanism of creating the resilience is lost, and the person goes through the trauma time and again. It is the saddest part of living – the denial of resilience, the inability to bounce back.
Resilience is the hall mark of a human being. The day we lose it we become a slave and a zombie; died but waiting for funeral. The first sign of slavery is the loss of creativity and repeating the same actions without any purpose and without any goal. Unfortunately we do encounter many people in this state of living; the funny thing is that they haven’t lost the memory. And it is truly sad when some young people living their life in this state of existence.
"The first sign of slavery is the loss of creativity and repeating the same actions without any purpose and without any goal." - This is very very true these days Sir. We enter a vicious cycle of repeating things and getting used to it and thats the end of freedom!
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