Superheros are not born – they are made!

Dear Students,

All of you fall into a situation of ‘If’ many times in your life. This ‘If’ leads many to failures. But it is not necessary that ‘If’ will lead to failure always, ‘If’ can lead you to success also. And this difference between failure or success due to ‘If’ depends only on your approach on how do you take this ‘If’ in your life. 

In the same Universe, in the same world and on the same earth, there are so many types of persons. Some persons who are deprived of even their body parts by nature, do what millions of healthy, fit and smart person do not dare to do. Are the former ones more capable than latter ones? Is it so? Has god provided some magic sticks to them?

If they can do….then why can’t you?

The eldest of Frank and Isobel Hawking’s four children, Stephen William Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo on January 8, 1942. He was born in Oxford, England, into a family of thinkers. His Scottish mother had earned her way into Oxford University in the 1930s—a time when few women were able to go to college. His father, another Oxford graduate, was a respected medical researcher with a specialty in tropical diseases.

But see the curse of nature…..I don’t know whether to call it a curse or a boon, but the son of medical specialist in tropical diseases got trapped into a amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disorder which ruined his body at the age of 21 only. Starting with the twisting of muscles, the diseases affects all the parts of the body. Research suggests that the person with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease can hardly survive for 2-3 more years. 

Where there is a will there is a way! Even after being trapped in the disease at the age of 21, Stefen’s Hawkin’s celebrated his 74th birthday this year – 2016. He is having children and grand children as well.

So, aren’t you strong enough to qualify even an Examination? Why not? Ask the question to yourself until you get the answer. You will surely get the answer,

At the age of eleven, Stephen went to St. Albans School and then on to University College, Oxford; his father’s old college. Stephen wanted to study Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he pursued Physics instead. After three years and not very much work, he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science.

Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology, there being no one working in that area in Oxford at the time.

Early in his academic life, Hawking, while recognized as bright, was not an exceptional student. During his first year at St. Albans School, he was third from the bottom of his class. He was never higher than the middle of class in terms of grades. But Hawking focused on pursuits outside of school; he loved board games, and he and a few close friends created new games of their own. During his teens, Hawking, along with several friends, constructed a computer out of recycled parts for solving rudimentary mathematical equations.

While Hawking first began to notice problems with his physical health while he was at Oxford—on occasion he would trip and fall, or slur his speech—he didn’t look into the problem until 1963, during his first year at Cambridge. For the most part, Hawking had kept these symptoms to himself. But when his father took notice of the condition, he took Hawking to see a doctor. The nerves that controlled his muscles were shutting down. Doctors gave him two and a half years to live.

Not long after he was released from the hospital, Hawking had a dream that he was going to be executed. He said this dream made him realize that there were still things to do with his life.

Before the diagnosis, Hawking hadn’t always focused on his studies. He was even very bored with his life. There had not seemed to be anything worth doing. But, With the sudden realization that he might not even live long enough to earn his PhD, Hawking poured himself into his work and research.