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Reader Reviews for "The First Step"

Reviewed by Vrinda Baliga	7/28/2012
The First Step is a first-person account of how a well-organized life is turned upside down by a road accident and about the long, difficult road to recovery. After suffering grievous injuries in a road accident, the author has to start life afresh. It is a re-birth in every way--like a new-born, she has to learn to take her nourishment in the form of liquids, then semi-solids and then small bite-sized solids; she has to learn to sit, and finally to walk her first step in a new world (new, not because the world has changed, but because her perspective has.) Even through the pain, discomforts and frustrations of a long hospital stay, the author manages to retain a positive outlook, feel gratitude and empathy for those around her, to take the opportunity to re-evaluate her life goals and priorities, and even to mentally refine her ideas and plans for development work in post-tsunami SriLanka. Not everyone is able to take a step back from the world and one's life, to take in the larger picture. To be grateful for life's small blessings. To realize just how much we are dependent on our fellow-beings no matter how independent we see ourselves as. This inspiring book gives us an opportunity to do so. It is a book one can carry in one's heart through the bad times, and perhaps more important, through the good.