Ordinary Life, Extra-Ordinary Tales!

What is an ordinary life? Little hectic, often boring, lots of struggling and mostly moving through a analogous pattern, it is very much like a merry-go-round. However, with conscious effort we can come out from this boring pattern and it is not difficult for us to spice up the life by giving different meaning or venturing to a new world. However, it is indeed a difficult task to upgrade a ordinary life to an extra-ordinary one. The tales of two human, and their extra-ordinary life.

Chirs & Rachel Rohrlach

In the documentary ‘A Good Man’, Indian-Australian filmmaker Safina Uberoi follows the Chris's family and I followed her to bring this incredible tales of an extra-ordinary man.

Fourteen years ago, Rachel suffered a stroke just a day after she and her new boyfriend Chris had told their parents she was having a baby. Rachel was then just 21. Although Rachel was in a coma for many months, the baby survived. Rachel recovered consciousness as a quadriplegic. Her son was born while she was in a coma. Against all medical and family advice, Chris took both the baby and Rachel home. He went on to marry her and has never left her side. Matter of fact apart from the teen aged boy Rachel had then, they gone to have another child.

Chris, an Australian farmer strapped by years of drought and raising their teenage son and the addition of a new baby proved to be a great financial burden, so Chris and two friends came up with the controversial solution to build and manage a brothel. He comes up with a bizarre solution to their financial woes. Rachel approves and together they work towards making it happen. Although brothels are legal in Australia, there is still huge local opposition to their plans. Chris triumphs against all odds and manages to open the brothel.  Chris just worked harder, while managing the farm by day, running the brothel by night, and shuttling his beloved wife between the two locations. Despite Rachel's quadriplegia, the drought they could take such joy in each other and their children.

William Kamkwamba

The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk. Self-taught William Kamkwamba has been feted by climate change campaigners like Al Gore and business leaders the world over. His against-all-odds achievements are all the more remarkable considering he was forced to quit school aged 14 because his family could no longer afford the  fees. Mr Kamkwamba, who is now 22 years old, knocked together a turbine from spare bicycle parts, a tractor fan blade and an old shock absorber, and fashioned blades from plastic pipes, flattened by being held over a fire.

The finished product - a 5-m (16-ft) tall blue-gum-tree wood tower, light bulbs and a circuit breaker, made from nails and magnets off an old stereo speaker, and a light switch cobbled together from bicycle spokes and flip-flop rubber. He upgraded his original windmill to 48-volts and anchored it in concrete after its wooden base was chewed away by termites.

Then he built a new windmill, dubbed the Green Machine, which turned a water pump to irrigate his family's field. The home-grown hero aims to finish bringing power, not just to the rest of his village, but to all Malawians, only 2% of whom have electricity.

!!!Nothing is miserable unless we wanted to live in it.!!!