A strange but sweet experience from today... Thought of sharing ...
This morning, while going to school, I happened to ride in a toto 🛺 driven by a man who, strangely enough, turned out to be connected to my own school😊😊😊...
It began casually. He asked me whether there was an exam in school that day. I said yes. Then he replied "I also studied in that school"...
That single sentence somehow opened a conversation that continued through the entire journey.......🛣🛣🛣
He told me he had left the school in 2018, while in Class 10. His elder brother had fractured his leg during an army run, and circumstances at home forced him to leave and join a government school instead. Later, he never went to college either, his mother needed a kidney operation, and life demanded other priorities from him.
[ Side Note 📕*:*Sometimes we the ones who are living a normal going life , are quite ugrateful of the fact of how privileged we are , It hit to me , that a smooth timeline which we all want specially during our academic journey was indeed a highly priced privilege for him ]
Now he rides a toto 🛺for a living. In between he mentioned that he knows how to drive a tractor too (quite in a boasting way ) .
[I felt good that he has still not forgotten the ways of cherishing his own achievements]
As he narrated pieces of his life, I had a rather peculiar feeling, as if I were reading an English short story, except I wasn't merely the reader, I was somehow inside it, listening to the protagonist tell his own tale. Perhaps navigator is the better word.🤓☝️
The coincidence of it struck me later. He was, in a way, my senior from the same school. Had I missed that particular toto, I would never have met him, never heard his story.🤗
And honestly, I think I was intentionally interactive. I felt he wanted to open up. So I kept the conversation going throughout the ride..............
It was a small, ordinary journey, yet it carried one of those oddly human moments that stay with you longer than expected........