Well, almost every person on earth has this so called cusp or as I say this “TURNING POINT” in their life. This is that particular point in an individual’s life where they realize the actual importance of life. This turning point can either be when they lose something that is very precious to them or they are immensely close to death and there is no single hope of them to live life once again but somehow manage it out. Like for example, someone maybe thrown from a 100-story building but gets saved since he was an acrobat, or remember those few lucky people in titanic who were lucky enough to get their lives’ back after such a grievous incident. And hope you remember those lucky fellows in Madagascar 2 who were crash landed by penguins reached earth safely. This was incredibly impressive!
These were just few examples of what I meant by this “Turning Point”. I as an individual personally feel that this turning “Turning Point” in one’s life is very important. This is very important to realize the proper value of life.
You must be wondering now that did she ever have such kind of an incident in her life? Well, maybe yes! But in my case it was different… I wasn’t hit on the highway by a truck at the speed of 240km/h neither I was ever THAT close to death if I was but at that time the so called “REALIZTION” factor was missing! The value of life still wasn’t there. And neither was I ever thrown down a 100-story building nor I ever sat in a plane whose engine failed nor I ever drowned in a 15 ft. swimming pool. Nothing of this sort; but oh yes I sure did get electrocuted by 220 Watt at the age of 5. I sure was just THIS; THIS close to death only if my aunt wouldn’t have come running to see why I was screaming!
My story begins from somewhere here; it was the summer of 2002 my cousin was crying and I always at my house was the kid who did “EVERYTHING”. Everything as in sense which involved computers, PS2’s, DVD player or anything of that sort. I was the confident kid who knew most of the stuff; I knew all the contact numbers. I was even called the yellow page by my family. So yeah, one day my little cousin was crying and I was asked to put on lion king for her. I went to the TV lounge, connected the wires and my aunt went downstairs to get my cousin. Suddenly I didn’t know what happened. Suddenly my entire soul was fading away as minutes went by… it was as if my fingers were being trampled by a thousand elephants. I couldn’t even scream my mind went numb. Thank goodness I somehow managed to scream! I could hear the footsteps of my aunt running up the stair case. She came up and thought I was laughing. As usual my family always calls me “Meeru”. So she said “Meeru! Why are you laughing?!” but after a few moments she realized I wasn’t laughing I was screaming and a 220 watt current was running furiously through my body!
And I’m pretty sure if she wouldn’t have come up running; a girl named “Ameera Qureshi” wouldn’t exist today!
One of the major reasons of my craziness is that I was electrocuted immensely when I was 5. Anyways I was SO close to death but you see I was too small for the realization factor. At that time life for me was all about a super woman called “Mom”, A rock star Called “Dad” and loveable creatures called “Family”. Video games like tekken, dragon ball Z, cartoon characters like Lion King, Woody from Toy story, Mulan, And That cuddly big bird from sesame street! And yes how could I forget FOOD!? Especially that 5pm snack along with a movie every day. Sipping magi noodles and sitting idle in front of the TV.
I feel such incidents should occur somewhere in you Mid-teen ages. Never before, otherwise it’s totally “USELESS!!”
I still do hope for a new “TURNING POINT” in life. This to some extend was useless, only I guess after this incident probably my mother started taking better care of me! I do remember I did become the center of everyone’s attention after that; especially dad! But otherwise cusp was missing and it made it useless!!
But nevertheless I do hope you have this turning point somewhere in life! And it wasn't as useless as mine!
