Wake-Up Calls: Wake-Up, Time to Change Your Path
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I call it Wake-up Calls because those calls were an indication, a gesture , a warning to change the path I was following with the blinkers on my eyes. Call after call to wake me and to put me on the right path. First call was near miss accident where I was part of it. Second call was when my elder brother died in car accident and four weeks later my mother passed away. The third call where three Ds had an accident, Devdutt, Damian & Domanic. Usually everybody gets three warnings but I did get the forth and final warning when I had to Wake-up.
Satish D H Thaker
Born in Aden, South Yeman , (ex-British Colony)in 1948. Schooling in India @ Panchgini, Bombay & Gurukul Supa, Navsari. 1st year science @ Bhavan’s College, Bombay. Moved to UK 1966, collage education Brooklyn Tech, Mathew Bolton and Garthes Green Tech college in Birmingham. Lived with Gujarati Desai family and Sikh Semi Family. Part time work on the building site and teaching Mathematics & Gujarati language. Join RAF 1970 and de-mobbed 1982. Practiced Tae-Kwon-do, represented RAF stations playing hockey & Vollyball. Participate Three years in International Four Days Marches @ Nijmegen, Holland. Tried mobile curry business in Norwich and petrol Stations in King’s Lynn, Norfolk Got married in 1974 to Kirtida and have grown up son Devdutt, daughter-in-law Krishna and daughter Puja (Jaid). At present , X-ray engineer, full time employed with CHUFT(Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust), NHS, Colchester. Member of the IWL (Improving working Life) committee in the hospital. Committee member of EAIA (East Anglia Inadian Association). Volunteering work with Colchester Lions Club and Amalthea Trust to train Ugandans in Bio-Medical Engineering in 2011, 2012 & 2014. Interest in soothing music, inspirational talks, travelling, cooking and eating out.
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Wake-Up Calls - Satish D H Thaker
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Contents
Chapter 1 From a Nine-to-Five Job to a Six-to-Eleven Business
Chapter 2 Wake-Up Call 1: Narrowly Avoided Head-On Collision
Chapter 3 Wake-Up Call 2: Mother and Brother’s Death
Chapter 4 Wake-Up Call 3: Three Ds in a Car Accident
Chapter 5 Final Wake-Up Call: My Dear Son and Meningitis
Chapter 6 Meningitis and Septicaemia
Introduction
I have expressed my wake-up calls through stories that happened during the span of a decade in my journey—or life chapter—as a petrol station owner. In each chapter, I’ve tried to cover events as they occurred. Each wake-up call was ignored, not purposely but without my realization of what was happening. And then I spent the night at a hospital bedside when my son was ill with meningitis. Eventually I was connected to my soul.
None of the incidents are dramatized. I have tried to express each one exactly as it happened. It took almost ten years before I discovered my soul’s agenda. It also took enormous courage and bravery to change my direction. The business was thriving. Staff and regular customers were happy. Raj, my partner, was happy because West Winch