It takes Three to Tango! This is what it seems to be when you see these musketeers roaming around here and there passing time. The school is over today and they are their own masters – though they have certain aspirations, though small and fit in their dreamy world.
Just the other day they were
playing and engrossed in their own small world, I was meeting them the second
time and they instantly recognized me – as I enquired about their schooling and
generally about their life, one of them spoke up meekly – “There is no school
today!, winter holidays” , to which I reverted,
“Then what is the plan for the
day guys?”…
Again came the voice “Uncle, we
will just chill and play to our heart’s content and we have nobody to call and
bother !” .
“What about your parents?” , I enquired.
The Cheeky one , who had just now
found his confidence talking to me
replied “Uncle , both have gone to work and house is empty! 😊.”
Surely, all three were king of
their own worlds today and were playing their heart out with a sense of
contentment – There were no limitations to their being gaudy and had all the
time in this world to be their real selves.
I asked the youngest of them about
his name and he smilingly replied “My name is Ramesh” and on further enquiring
I got to know that he indeed had no parents and was orphan and was just clinging
on to life with both the other buddies he had befriended just months back – the
other two being real brother and sister, their parents took Kishore as their
third child and was taking care of him – though he was not sent to school.
As Kishore spoke “ Uncle, I will
go to school from next session, I love going to School and I love books!” –
those words brought a sight of relief and I talked about the importance of
going to school or any teaching centre.
The conversations soon turned into
a playful one and then I asked what games they were playing – amongst them, who
wore a school uniform and went by one name “Kishen” shyly replied “Uncle we
have just now created a game out of a single Brick that we found” and now we
will pass our time with this brick! , All three musketeers were smiling ear to
ear in tandem.
No wonder, we they had understood life better in this tender age and that their daily living had taught them the value of resources and also to remain satiated and in humour with whatever they had in life… As I said a final “Goodbye”, all three were effervescent and reverted with full vigour – they had made me their friend – I promised them a small token of gift that they needed for them to play when they have such occasion – I am sincerely looking forward towards the next meeting and spending time with them – the purity of their thoughts took me into another tangent… being a child is always mesmerizing and finding little ones as a shade of your past living is an honour…
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