Nothing is Impossible

Jhamak Kumari Ghimire, is an young Nepalese woman born with no arms and with disability of being unable to speak. Recently, she has won an Madan Puraskar prize for her book 'Is life a thorn or a flower?' (autobiographical essays) in age of 30. Not only that, she wrote four volumes of poetry, two storybooks and many newspaper columns and articles. As she was not sent to school, the only way she could learn how to write was to listen to her sister studying. It is amazingly inspirational how she didn't give up on learning how to write. It should have taken her most of her youth time for her to learn how to write just by listening to her sister. She had achieved her dream and proved that nothing is impossible and it is worth fighting for. Impossibility is worth fighting for.

Impossibility is important to fight for because everybody will acknowledge you for the progress of fighting and achieving it. Jhamak Kumari Ghimire, who spent most of her life doing her writing, went through the progress of fighting the impossibility. It would have taken a lot of practice for her to write an essays and poems with her foot. Now, after she received a Madan Puraskar prize, one of the most prestigious award of literary in Nepal, everybody feels amazed by the fact that she did write an essay with her foot and show respect for her progress and hard work. But that is not all. People feel more amazed that her writing is as good as other famous authors. What made she so good at writing is that she read whole lot of books and most importantly she works as a columnist at the Kantipur newspaper (Nepalese newspaper). She was practicing her writing as a columnist and it is obvious that she tried to improve her writing more and more until she was satisfied with her writing. I was also shocked at how good her writing is. Her writing was filled with various types of luxurious words with correct grammar. Look below for her poem 'What is the Interpretation of the New Millennium'?. It is a poem about poverty and how even kids are suffering from poverty. She mentions all the bad things happen to the orphan kids who are in poverty and how we are not helping when we could be support so much for them.

Additionally, impossibility is important to fight for as there is always a happy end to it. If Jhamak Kumari Ghimire didn't even try to learn by listening to her sister and practice writing with her foot, she would have never made it to receiving Madan Puraskar prize. However, Jhamak Kumari Ghimire never gave up and spent a lot of time learning to write and write with her foot. 'I could not share that moment's joy with anyone, but my first letter was written in the dust on the ground and in my heart I could pronounce it. I was so happy that I rewrote the letter 'ka' many times. I was so moved by this quote how she had overcome her disability and worked really hard. She says that she wrote down the words on the ground until her foot bled and it hurt a lot. But she thinks that all the pain and disability that she overcame, helped her get this far. Now, as a Madan Puraskar prize winner, she says 'I am very happy to get the award.' But she still wants to keep writing because she knows that if she can fight for something and achieve it, there can never be regret but only happy end.

Without impossibility, there is nothing to fight for or challenge for in the world. Kumari Ghimire is 30 years old woman who overcame all her disability and difficulties to even win one of the most prestigious prize in Nepal. Kumari Ghimire is inspirational as she never gave up and kept fighting against the impossibility and the disability and finally achieved what she wanted to. It was her progress that people acknowledge, not how well her writing is. Kumari Ghimire is now a famous writer in Nepal and she still works on improving her writing because she thinks that her writing is not perfect. Impossibility is worth fighting for.

Here is her poem:

'What is the interpretation of the New Millennium'?

A soft light glimmers
on the eve of people's deaths
The fern unfurls out of season
without its stem
having matured

No mourning will be observed now
on the eves of people's deaths
What is the interpretation of this age?
A separate live identity
thrives inside a scream

After a hollow ending
the raped
accused
abducted
orphaned skeletons
won't exorcise their agitation
at the crossroads of expression
as one exorcises
witches and ghosts
by sacrificing chicks

The sari and blouse torn in
the poverty of a rag to wear
in the freezing winters
dam the snow rivers of the season
and yet there is no hint of bitterness
The yearned-for attacks
not just of one winter
but of thunder and lightning
spread no mutinous luminescence
A peaceful flame burns forever
at evening time in the homes of the dead
It is likely that
the cultured people who affect devotion
do not wish to offer to the fire
a single tear
for this millennium
Now, what is the interpretation of this age?
Each hurting moment
Each hurting tremor
kisses the arrival of the new millennium
without the slightest cry of pain

Not a stir of the new millennium came
to the frostbitten heels of the old grandmother
to the ragged tunic of the old grandfather
The water jugs filled by a young girl
near this courtyard of poverty
taunt the new millennium
the flowers she has plucked and arranged
unearth countless realities
and search in the grandmother's torn sari and blouse
in the grandfather's patched tunic
for the interpretation of the new millennium