Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon tennis player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease”?
To this Arthur Ashe replied: The world over — 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals. When I was holding the trophy I never asked GOD: “Why me?”. So today in pain, I should not be asking GOD: “Why me?”
Arthus Ashe? He is a legendary Wimbledon tennis player? Who the heck is he? I hadn’t even heard his name. Some legend he is.
By: ayaz on July 24, 2006
at 4:00 pm
kam say kam koi dhang kee baat to kee hai jo bhee hai, tumharee tarah thoree
By: Talha on July 24, 2006
at 4:25 pm
Kay kam ke baath? It is stupid logic. He won the finals because he WORKED hard and played superbly. He got AIDS NOT because he banged an infected woman, or gave an infected guy the head: He got it as a result of an accident.
Where is the sense in his argument? Tell me? Haan? Bolo, na? Kya howa?
And, BTW, thousands of people die of AIDS. Why are you crying over this guy’s health? Kon lagta hai tumhara yeh, haan?
By: Ayaz Ahmed Khan on July 25, 2006
at 4:30 am
Ayaz,
Just because you haven’t heard of Arthur Ashe, doesn’t mean that he isn’t a legend. Perhaps the meaning that can be found is that there is now opportunity for you to know more about him. I am not black, and therefore am perhaps not qualified to speak about the significance of his work in advancing the equality of blacks to whites. However, this man was indeed remarkable, if for nothing else, because he recognized that the status he achieved as one of the best tennis players ever enabled him to help people in the world who were not as blessed as he was. The irony was that as he never questioned his right to receive such blessings, he also did not question why he acquired HIV. His greatness as a tennis player came secondary to the work he did outside of tennis and because whatever he did he did in humility. The world lost a great man when Arthur Ashe died.
By: Chris Sherwood on August 8, 2006
at 3:23 pm