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Funda February 1 2013   BY  N Raghuraman

Resilience is a law of nature

Recently I went for a condolence. The family had suddenly shrunk from four members to three. But that one member who is no more today was enough to create a situation of a “band baaza bharat” everyday. All three members would be talking about the fourth member all the time. The conversations include where is she, hope she is not doing any masti, why she is so silent, what has been cooked for her, had she gone to her toilet or not, who will take her for a walk etc. Every human being will be talking about this member who is more than a human being and an apple of everyone’s eye.

The casual and sick leaves of the three were consumed only when this member was falling sick. In fact she was such stress buster at home no one else fell sick other than herself. All three members never grumbled to take leave to take care of this fourth member when the later used to fall ill.

That member who died was their 12-year-old female member of the family and a loyal companion was a watchman also. Nobody dared entered their house in their absence. It was a tiny brown and gold colour Pomeranian who used to run around the house all the time carrying something from somewhere to the main hall to attract to the attention of her masters.

Masters either used to pet and pat her for the job well done or would say that she should not carry that particular item hence forth. She understood every instruction and every word of her multiple masters.

Since last three months, she was very quiet, not eating food, not greeting people, no sniffing any new comer and his belongings. The house had become dead by and large. First they thought it is her general sickness. As the situation did not improve they tried different doctors, then they took her to the best of the doctors, every part of her body was scanned, nothing came out of those scanning.

Then they took her to the best of the animal hospital India can offer—Tata’s animal hospital at Parel in Mumbai found the reason for her inability to eat food. Her pancreas was strangulated by an organ growth which is not allowing the food to go. She was operated upon and found the growth is huge like a tumour but only thing is that the doctors at that time were not aware that it was cancerous or not.

She used to silently cry. The corners of the brown dog’s eyes were slowly getting black with flowing water. Doctors told the family that she is going through a terrible pain. They could not see her in pain and they requested the doctors not to treat her and allowed her to die.

I came back from the condolence and logged on to my computer. Cartoonist Monica Gupta from Sirsa, Haryana, had posted on her facebook page a picture of dry Tulsi plant, that she forgotten to water due to heavy winter. It became dry and there was not a single leaf. She decided to bring new sapling that evening to change. But the bad weather did not give her the courage to touch the mud. So she left the pot as it is.

Three days later when the weather subsided, she suddenly saw little green leaves spurting from the dried stems at different places. She was happy that the plant had come back to life. She immediately went to water the plant and feed with some manures. And she was happy she did not kill the plant three days before thinking that it died.

I don’t know why the dog came to my mind. Had they not stopped the treatment the chances of it coming back to life was there or not, I have no clue. Only doctors are the best advisors. But it certainly occurred to my mind. I clicked ‘like’ on Monica Gupta’s post, the first of that kind of an activity in my social networking life.

Funda is that life is resilient. Give it a chance and it will make every effort to repair itself and bounce back. Every creature or life inherently possesses the power of resilience. 

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