Flying upside down or getting carried away!

I got less than a few seconds early in the morning to sight and photograph this Golden Oriel, before it flew away. 

What surprised me was the way it started its flight-upside down!

How birds suspend themselves in the air is physics and aerodynamics which is beyond my understanding. 

Was a gush of air at that height of about two hundred meters which carried away the bird to its position when it failed in its ability to balance itself!

Do we not feel carried away by the pressure of circumstances!

In a conversation with my colleagues, it is this which became an issue for dialogue!

Most parents and children who visit us want to give consent to their choices about taking medicines. While we feel that medicines are useful when a child has hyperkinesis, attention deficit or sleep initiation dysfunction, we encounter considerable resistance from parents to think of the benefits of using medicines. 

They feel strongly influenced by what they hear about the adverse influences of drugs, planted in their minds who are strongly opinionated. 

As alternate forms of therapies are popular and such services are popularised for developmentally challenged children, this resistance to use drugs is rampant among parents. 

I have a sense that parents feel carried away to a  lopsided thinking about the value of medicines even when we have to treat a well established Electrical Rhythm Disturbance with evidence of its impact on learning, behaviour, sleep, etc. of a child. 

For a bird in the air, flying upside down might seem almost normal; but for us to move against the stream is an uphill task.

It is anathema in the culture that I live to accept the left hand as the dominant hand and allow a child to do all the functions with left hand! I come across occasionally parents or teachers who feel comfortable with the use of the left hand. 

Even in the planning of a class rooms,  I do not come across chairs with rotating writing pads attached to it, which are designed for those who use their left hands for writing!

Some of our beliefs spring from cultural and traditional practices. It is necessary to avoid feeling carried away, when evidence in existence is contrary to such beliefs!

To swim upstream or choose an innovative or creative approach and 'walk the less travelled path' is what might lead the way for others.

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)