I, Nazish Kamal, stand as an example of having faced one of the worst fears of life one can imagine. In short, I went BLIND for a month. It all started when I was preparing for my Std. 12th board examinations.
Being dynamic and passionate about everything in the field of academics as well as the co-curricular activities, I tried to be “better-than-average” in most of them. In this pursuit of the competitive world, I started forgetting my inner-self and this very ignorance did cost me something. I forgot to be satisfied. Nowhere was the term ‘happiness’ involved. Just seven days before my Board examination, I woke up one morning to realize that everything around is murky. Having informed my parents about the same, they suggested me to re-sleep as it then seemed to be a case of eye-discharge having bundled up. I slept and woke up again and again but the vision did not come back. That moment of panic, desperation and un-comfort of having lost one of the thousands of critical functions of our body structure, had everything “dark” around me. My stress along with the sinusitis issue lead to misalignment of one nerve within my right eye to cause UVETIS.
This moment, I had two options, either to freak out or to remain calm and be positive. I maintained a ‘plastic’ smile to soothe my ailing parents. My father had undergone a “angioplasty” heart surgery, yet he drove me off to Kolkata and Chennai from Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. It took around a month in Shankara Nethralaya, Kolkata and Chennai both, where they kept me blindfolded for a long time. This phase I learnt such values and morals, which no teacher other than 'life' could have taught. That one month of never-ending silence made me realize how happy and blessed I had been before and this gave me such optimism which was the need of the hour. With the god’s grace, I recovered quickly with no signs of further treatments. My vision had recuperated at its best, I dint even require spectacles. And though I had to drop one-year, next year it gave me better results when I scored 91% in boards, with a year full of love and happiness. My bonding with my family and friends grew stronger. Even after 6 years, I smile and I smile a lot. Whatever comes up, seems manageable. That one incident changed the whole track of my life. It indeed was a turning point, but it depends on us whether to make it a good or a bad one. Now, I am in my first year of MBA in SCMHRD Pune and somewhere down the line, if I achieved something, it so happened because of that one small decision to stay “positive”.