Hi, I am Sarath Philip Jee, a backpacker from Kerala in India.

Everything I ever knew as my life, my identity ceased making sense when the doctor told me that I was suffering from cerebral palsy. My body had stopped growing. Whenever tried to make a move I felt like someone is poking thousands of needles all over my body. I can’t walk, stand or even do my simple job.

I spent the next few days on my bed waiting for sleep or death. But nothing happened. I somehow grabbed my backpack and made it to the train which was heading towards Jaipur, in Rajasthan.

A few days passed. I was sitting in a wonderful dessert in Rajasthan called Sam Sand Dunes sipping my beers watching the best sunset of my life. Hundreds of people we’re having a great time around me.

Most of them never even heard about things which I have been told as “the must to have a successful life.” Still, they were living life to the fullest no matter what. At that very moment, I realised that “life is not about what happened to us, it is all about how we choose to react to what happens to us”.