Gas Flow Meter - How My Life Was Changed For Ever By This Subject

I am not a science student. Actually, I was a science student when I first joined college. I loved science and I wanted to become a doctor one day. Throughout my childhood, I had a menagerie of stray animals which I used to nurse with a dedication and commitment which belied my age and maturity. Hence, I was always in demand in my neighborhood for helping various pets.

Providence Decides My Future

I had topped my class in 10th grade and I was very happy about my achievement. This is because I hardly studied during the exam period since I had just fallen in love and was busy enjoying the new euphoria that was sweeping over me. Nothing seemed more important than meeting Sandy and I had never even given a second thought to my exams. Thankfully, I had been a good student through school and I graduated with flying colors.

You may be wondering what my school history or my love life has to do with gas flow meters. Wait. I am coming to that. It has plenty to do with gas flow meters - in a most peculiar way. So, after finishing school I applied for a Science College and planned to be a doctor one day. Sandy was a dream come true – and I was naïve enough to think that this was life for me. I would become a doctor, marry Sandy who had gotten a seat in mechanical engineering – and we would live happily ever after.

However, it was not to be this way. Just six month after my joining College, my parents announced that they were getting a divorce. My sister and I were devastated. And then in Physics (a subject I always dreaded) came the lesson on gas flow meters. I remember it vividly because I was so not ready for it. With the divorce playing at the back of my mind, the lecture of the Physics professor was like Chinese for me. I just could not grasp what he was trying to say on the gas flow meter subject.

That mid-semester I failed at Physics; first time in my life I had ever failed. It felt like I failed in everything and my life was over. That was when I cut my wrists and wanted to die. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I was discovered by my sister and was saved. But that was the end of my science career, my becoming a doctor dreams, and even Sandy. I felt that I was not ready for a relationship anymore.

That was how a gas flow meter changed my life. That is why I will never forget this term!