Fearless, With Coco By My side!
- Jun 22, 2020
- 2 min read
How does one define fearlessness, for the word may differ for each.
Maybe for you to be fearless is in the face of some evident threat to your life. But for me it’s a simple day to day thing.
What if one fine day you woke up & are unable to walk due to some pain, not just for days or weeks, but months. And your nervous system & muscles collapse & one minute you’re able to use your hand & next minute you moan even to lift it up. Scientifically they are called trigger points. After 9 years of relentless test & therapies, when medical science gave-up, saying there are 5% of pain cases that can’t be diagnosed, how would you define fear then.
And to add to your woe, you’re still very young, with no career, dreams & the notion of family we are brought up with. I’d say Atul & I are travellers in life & we’ve understood a Love very different from the norm. He’s been a rock to me & so have I, equally been a sound support especially when I’ve been bedridden & he’d have to travel.
Coco came then, when there was no way out for me.
The world had blurred out its lens, when pointing at me, so much so that the mist along with the droplets on glass had evaporated what life of someone who ails mean.
Coco passed the test to be a therapy dog, based on his temperament & we’ve had the good fortune to volunteer with him for Animal Angels projects along with Akash & Minal & have tasted the foam of the milk, that sweetness of his love has touched many souls on the way.
But slowly Cocos being here became clearer to us. Where science was unable to diagnose my pain Coco knew!
He would know if I’d be unable to walk & give me signs to slow down. Over the years these points became unbearable, especially the points on my scalp that leaves me breathless & unable to speak for weeks. Cocos never left my side.
Through this fear of living with constant uncertainty, Cocos taught me to rely on myself.
This is Fearlessness to me, every second knowing my body shuts, yet I’m Loved by a Love that never once sees me as weak.
Animal Assisted Therapy helps to open hearts such that your life shall become An Inspiration, to a world, that had once closed its doors to you, for the inspiration that these beautiful souls in you breathe
What is Fearlessness to you...Someday we shall speak
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Copyright: Meghna/2020
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