Thursday, September 5, 2013

A tale

A boy and a girl are playing in the open field; a cycle approaches them and hits the girl. The girl begins to cry and boy is very scared. One man rushes towards them, scolds the cycle and threatens of action.
The boy is walking with the man in the middle of bazar. The boy wants to eat chocolate but the man explaining what could be result of eating lot of chocolate offers him a choice: a chocolate or juice. But the boy chooses chocolate.
The same boy and the man are somewhere at the temple and the man is explaining the social context and history of architecture styles used in temples. Fascinated, the boy is listening to every account; facts, myths and legends of the history.
The man shares the secret of happiness telling availability of the choice, which mankind always had, is what makes us good or bad and making good choice always requires great deal of compassion.

Flash forward: the boy wakes up and is surprised to his the girl next to his bed. Crying the girl tells boy that the man would never come back again. Like the angle of the stories he heard, he must have fulfilled his purpose and returned back with one-way ticket.

Today, I thank that man who shaped my life and made me who I am. Happy Father's Day!

Thank you dad!