A journey of happiness
God has given what I should have and I shouldn't have asked for more b'cos I lead a journey of happiness today. You probably wun understand what do I meant when I say I'm happy until you see Thomas...
My aunt is in a counselling course and she introduced a course mate of hers to me. This lady, Shau Ching, has a client named Thomas. She wanted to extend her help to his family by plotting him a more stable career path. That's why I'm rope into the picture. Last week she arranged me to meet Thomas. Before I met him, I was painted the scenario that he was a wheelchair-bound personnel, with only chest level and above mobility. I didn't really come this close to someone like him until that day I went up to his house and saw him laying on his wheelchair.
Thomas was a typical Singaporean guy like us. He likes to watch soccer, tease girls in his younger days, went through the MOE educational system until he reached his poly life, Temasek Poly. He was 18 that year when he went for his friend's party. He played Chor Tai Di and loser had to drink a glass of Volka. Does this kind of life sound familiar to you? He was drunk that night, so drunk that his friends brought him to the 3rd storey room in that bungalow to rest. He fell asleep and no one knew what happened after that. The next time when he opened his eyes was 10 days later in a hospital.
Thomas is 26 this year, just like me. He lived in a 4-room HDB flat with a maid and his mother taking care of him. The only difference between him and me is that I can move around happily while he is wheelchair-bound for life. I can't imagine his struggles in life when he cannot feel for his own body, not even trying to move his last finger. He wrote a book after that called "Beyond The Fall". According to him, his mom was the most affected. God knows when a son who is supposed to take care of their parents but after an accident like this, his parents got to take care of him for life. The pain for his mom's struggle was felt more than his own struggle for a better health. That episode really gave me a hard knock on my head, telling me to do more good things. I can't resist and will not resist when I was approached by Shau Ching to purchase a book from Thomas.
He is inspiring. He wanted to do more to inspire and touch lives. And guess what? He has the same goals as mine! He wanted to give more talks, focusing on Character Development for youths. I can't find a reason to say no and I'm going to propose to the core team and hopefully we can do more for Thomas. He understand that by sharing his own experience will teach most of us, the fortunate ones, a valuable lesson. At least this is his journey of happiness. What about you?
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