MAULED D’Mello!!

You know you need to update your blog... Your friends tell you, you need to, your mum tells you, you need to, that little voice in your head tells you, you need to as well... You get signs from all around the world, right from having absolutely nothing to do at work for a change… So, You've opened your browser, you’ve opened up your blogging platform, and now the cursor is staring at you accusingly, flashing that bothersome flash on white… What do you do?? Well, I know what I do… Ring my Home!!! :D I most certainly know.. nope, not FEEL, know that once I call Home it’s all going to fall into place! And it did!!

I call home and my gorgeous sister fills me in with today’s headlines, she told me that the news I was about to hear was going to blow me away, and it did, it unquestionably did! 

Those of who are wondering do I not read the newspaper, yes I do, but I read it in the evening! Every single day, without fail! Yeah I know its twisted, but that’s how I roll! My theory?? Why read the newspaper and get abreast with all the demolition, killing, destruction and sorrow right in the morning?? Being ignorant for a while, will at least help me start off the day on a positive note! Coming back from work, all tired and exhausted, after having dealt with unbelievably HOT, but at the same time highly unstable clients, a boss who is PMSing throughout the year, a breast obsessed 40 something lady HR person, and a project person who is actually a woman trapped inside the body of a man, the one thing I need is the newspaper to make me feel that I need to be grateful for the life I leading and not grumble about it! :D :D

Coming back to the news that blew me away, meet Violet D’Mello, 60 of Aberdeen, Scotland, she along with her husband Archie D’mello,64 were visiting Kragga Kamma game reserve near Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

It was a nice day, I am sure.. it was, a nice bright sunny day, little did she imagine, this was going to turn into one of those life altering, landmark days in her life! She and another family had entered the petting pen enclosure to take a photo next to the big cats, as you can see, she did manage to take a photo with the cheetah. One of the photos taken by Archie shows Violet D’Mello smiling and posing with a cheetah raised by humans in the enclosure, before, it became very serious very quickly. All of a sudden our big cat decides to attack a little girl who had come along with the other family. One of two cheetahs in the enclosure first grabbed a young girl, leaving her with scratches and cuts that needed stitches. In a beautiful display of bravery and valor, the holidaymaker tried to protect the girl from the family from being mauled. Although she did manage to save and protect the girl, D’Mello was attacked by our supposedly tame cheetahs, Mark and Monty, who knocked her to the ground, bit her on her legs, and head, in what I would like to simply state as a horrifying attack. She had a miraculous escape, by simply “playing dead”. She believed, and right so that “all would be okay, if she just didn’t move, move at all… with no reaction, absolutely none, in fact play dead! Despite all that, she had numerous bite and puncture marks, and her scalp was “sliced open.” The cheetahs “weren’t being vicious. You could tell they were just *EXICTED!*,” said Mrs. Bleeding D’Mello. (God knows what the woman is thinking… probably it’s the profuse blood loss that has caused her to hallucinate.)

Her bravery is commendable and I am really very happy that she is all good, well and healthy. That’s all that matters, isn’t it? Actually not quite… We have all heard of stories rather incidents of animals turning into beasts and mauling innocent people, and also have heard of over enthusiastic people knowingly endangering their lives by instigating the wild animals… But for me, what is really shocking about this story is while all the other tourists and park attendants fought relentlessly to get the animals away from a bleeding D'Mello, Her HUSBAND, not realizing what was happening, carried on clicking the ordeal!!! I mean what was he thinking? Or rather was he thinking at all??

We have a wife who says the cheetahs was just being playful and excited, and yeah almost got her ripped apart and they are just a "little" excited!!! *Smacks the face and nods vigorously*. Then you have the husband who kept on shooting, was he getting excited too? Hmmmmm… Or was he trying to get rid of his wife and at the same time trying to get published and famous??? I really do pity these petty people! I did some digging and managed to get a hold of Mr. Archie!! Here’s a Picture of Poor Violet and the real BEAST!

Imagine the scene, there is an old lady, clutching on to her digital camera and her glasses perched on her nose, vacationing far away from home, posing for pictures and smiling away. Only to be dragged violently to the ground by the cheetah, and mauled all over as well. The glasses flying in the air, her clothes all in tatters… All this and more right in front of her husband, who doesn’t stop taking the pictures, or volunteer to help her!! Forget the fact that she is his wife, wont we drop everything that we are doing to help someone who is in obvious danger? No matter how difficult and dangerous the situation, won’t we try to help?? Ahh well, and our Man shoots frames while his wife was in danger? He better expect a vicious, nasty marital scrimmage after it, to say the least!

Before I end, Let me be a bit random and wind up with a few lines about why we need to learn to LOSE Gracefully… Everyone wants to win. But any time two teams are facing each other in a game or contest, someone will have to lose right? (unless it's a tie of course). Losing is disappointing, so it's not surprising that WE don't like it. But everyone can or rather should learn to control how they react to a loss. In other words, what should you do when you lose?

• You don't have to be happy about losing, but it's good to rationalize that it is in fact a competition and somebody HAS to lose. 
• Look at losing as a learning experience. YOU WILL always have another chance to win. 
• Just because someone beats you once, that doesn't necessarily make them better. Even if they are better, they can't possibly be better than you at EVERYTHING. 
• Always keep in mind that in order for YOU to win, somebody else has to lose. Try to imagine how you would think of a sore loser IF you were the one winning. 
• Always remember the old saying, "It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game that counts!"

So, my dear one, PLAY WELL and that’s all that Matters! :D :D

Love.