Live Life

This is a book by Jill Taylor. Karthik who is from my meditating group, recommended us this book in one of our knowledge sessions where we talk about life and beyond. I knew outright that this could be a book with a lot of insight. Jill a neuroanatomist gets a major stroke and loses a lot of her left brain. Left brain is all about the to-do list. We use left brain to work, day-to-day activities, speak, read etc. Now you may wonder what does right brain even do? Didn't left brain cover everything? So, Jill with her left hemisphere flooded in blood what do you think her capabilities were after the stroke? And she says "To the right mind, no time exists other than the present moment, and each moment is vibrant with sensation. Life or death occurs in the present moment. The experience of joy happens in the present moment. Our perception and experience of connection with something that is greater than ourselves occurs in the present moment. To our right mind, the moment of now is

Dumbfounded I sit thinking how little I know about the world. The experiences people have/had. How much deep the suffering can really be. I thought I have the deepest scar in my life suffering alone but here this lady has gone through things which stands way beyond my wildest imagination. Everything she wrote in this book felt like a fiction. I could hardly believe it is a memoir. I have heard/seen kids not going to schools because of various reasons. Staying home doing all odd jobs to help get food on the table. But life is still normal. As a kid, go help your father/mother at the construction site or farm to cultivate crops get some extra daily wage for the family for food on table or actually floor. But never did a thought cross mind what goes on in families like these when one of the parents is a bipolar/schizophrenic. It is super hard. A kid not going to school and growing up listening to the random imaginations of a schizophrenic paranoid patient, is almost like living in a cage.