New Delhi: No matter how high the odds are piled against a person, human will can and does fight back, over and over again. Christina Ramani seems to have proved it.
Working as a project coordinator on Sahara miracle maids, 50-year-old Ramani was a drug addict for over 23 years. She recovered in 1998 only to start again in 2002 when her 20-year-old son was murdered.
Finally she quit drugs in September last year after yet another blow when she lost her husband.
"I still enjoy myself without it. I enjoy better and sober,” she says.
Her new-found happiness for almost a year now comes from children she spends time with as they remind her of her lost son.
"It’s actually within us we drug users. We have to decide and keep to it,” she says.
Her photographs with her sister with whom she was compared to are old but memories of her tough childhood are still fresh in her mind.
Coping with tragedies in her life and finally saying no to drugs, Ramani is someone her housemates look up to.
“Chritina didi inspires us,” says her housemate Mamuni.
No matter how strong a will, there is always a trigger that can push an addict back - which is why experts say that recovery from addiction is a process not an event"
"It’s a chronic disease. We have cases of relapse and it’s social change that’s needed,” says Ashita Mittal of United Nations Office.
For this Literature graduate from Kolkata, regaining control of her life after two decades show that Ramani has at last begun to believe in herself.
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