Sunday 4 November 2012

The Heartfelt Wish...


It all started with a wish...

Khushi wished for a better teacher, someone who'd not just teach well but also ignite the minds of the students. Not that the students had lots of interest in biochemistry, but still...
She wanted to learn. All that she could! Her thirst for knowledge was irrevocable. Her curiosity ever growing!

But the subject appeared to be jinxed. In the whole course of one year, they had never been satisfied with the lessons. The teacher used to literally read out from his notes, and no one quite understood what was going on. And young as they were, her classmates, they preferred either bunking the lectures or playing games on their cellphones. Which Khushi highly detested. You see, she was that kind of a girl who always had believed in the value of a good education. She wanted to take it seriously. It was only she who took keen interest in all the classes and practicals.

She was not the topper, but used to be there among the top five scorers.
For her, scoring the best was not the ultimate goal. She did not believe in rote learning. Neither did she like memorizing unnecessary seeming stuff (like history, which was a subject which she didn't quite like for this very fact, back in her school days). One can always look it up!

She used to love reading extra stuff, stuff outside the syllabus, stuff outside the purview of the daily grind of student life. She loved the art of science, and the science of the arts! It would not have been surprising if you'd see her reading Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam's "Ignited Minds", Harivanshrai Bacchan's "Madhushala" or Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret" a day before the exams! Much to her mom's annoyance!

In her heart was a world of her own. She loved so many things and people. She respected every soul and cared for every living thing. She had a knack for science, and read science books at her own will, not according to the college lectures!

She had had some of the best mentors anyone could get. Who molded her views and fueled her imagination.

But college had been disappointing. Though the subjects were all of her interest, there was a lack, a lacuna that seemed to constantly remind her that something was amiss. Her strong intuition told her that something great is going to come, but that great something was still elusive...

And in her heart of hearts, she wished that it would arrive soon...

"Sometimes God answers all your prayers,
In the form of a person"

And that's what happened...
Her wish came true that day. On that silent rainy day...



To be continued...

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