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By Sarah Mahmood
Recognize the picture? It is of a man who has been a big inspiration for me ever since I read one of his books called Universe in a Nutshell.
While I do not remember much of it now (having read it rather reluctantly at the time owing to my dad's refusal to get me the sixth installment of the Harry Potter series and instead an insistence upon reading worthwhile stuff such as the one mentioned above), I developed a keen interest in the man behind it. Our common interests of cosmology and the universe got me hooked on. Further researches told me he was one Professor Stephen Hawking, a physically impaired man who was suffering from the motor neurone disease, something he had developed while studying at Cambridge University in his twenties.
His life is an example, for all of us here, the man who was told that he would not survive more than two or three years after the disease was first diagnosed. Prof Hawking, who is now almost completely paralysed, had the will to live a life of purpose, of accomplishments and achievements. Where do we stand then, in the course of history, with all our powers and abilities intact?
While I do not remember much of it now (having read it rather reluctantly at the time owing to my dad's refusal to get me the sixth installment of the Harry Potter series and instead an insistence upon reading worthwhile stuff such as the one mentioned above), I developed a keen interest in the man behind it. Our common interests of cosmology and the universe got me hooked on. Further researches told me he was one Professor Stephen Hawking, a physically impaired man who was suffering from the motor neurone disease, something he had developed while studying at Cambridge University in his twenties.
His life is an example, for all of us here, the man who was told that he would not survive more than two or three years after the disease was first diagnosed. Prof Hawking, who is now almost completely paralysed, had the will to live a life of purpose, of accomplishments and achievements. Where do we stand then, in the course of history, with all our powers and abilities intact?
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." -Erma Bombeck
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