He asked them to go there for 11 consecutive full moon days. In 2002, a man came to them, introduced himself as a neighbor’s friend, and asked them to go during the full moon, saying she should think of the people as praying for her, not pitying her at all. The family used to go for pradhakshina on days where there was no crowd as Preethi did not like people looking at her with pity. She had, and still has, deep faith in the immense positive vibration of this place and has even had a miraculous experience there. Gradually, she began to accept the situation and develop a faith that she would be shown the way. Look within, and try to find that within you which is eternal, constant, unchanging,” Her mother too staunchly stood by her and stopped her from giving up. Her wise father, however, used Vedantic logic to motivate her: “Everything keeps changing and the body’s deterioration is inevitable.
She tried studying further but gave it up as hopeless because no institution or systems was disabled-friendly.
It took four crucial hours to reach Chennai for proper treatment, where she was diagnosed not with spondylitis but with quadriplegia (paralyzed neck downwards).įor two years, she was severely depressed and refused to move out of the house. She was first taken to the JIPMER Hospital in Pondicherry in an ambulance where she was made to wear a spondylitis collar without proper diagnosis and sent to Chennai for a thorough check-up. Even though she felt faint, she got others to conduct her first aid. Even in such a dire situation, Preethi kept her cool. She felt a shock-like sensation travel through her spine and found herself unable to move. A receding wave churned up the sand from under her feet, tripping her up and sending her spinning to the ground. Soon, they went to the shore and with the other girls, she started to jump on the waves in thigh-deep water while the boys swam and played in the deeper portions. She had had a wonderful college trip to Pondicherry and was returning to Chennai when they stopped to spend some time at a private beach owned by a classmate’s father. Life suddenly turned topsy-turvy in 1998 when she was just 18. She also captained the U-19 TN Cricket team to its only victory in 1997. She was just eight when she played for the Tamil Nadu Women’s Cricket Team. In a country where women are seldom encouraged to focus on sports, Chennai-based Preeti Srinivasan was a diehard cricket fan right from the age of four. Preethi Srinivasan not just overcomes her challenge but chose to devote her life to the aid of those who are in a similar or worse state, thereby coming around a full circle, from victor to the victim and back to a victor. Those who can mold any challenge no matter how mammoth, into a new and better life, a new and better person. But what if the end actually became a new beginning? This is the destiny of the exceptional among us. The best story from the best motivational stories.įrom a sports champ to a quadriplegic can appear to be two ends of a spectrum. Preethi Srinivasan transcended her handicap and devoted her life to the aid of those in a similar or worse state, says Jamuna Rangachari.
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