Today I bring you a story that happened a few minutes ago.
The time is a little after supper, around a quarter passed eight. I had dined alone at the cafeteria and was looking to go for a walk. My kindle accompanied me. I sat to read at what I think is perhaps the centre most spot of my university. Phone was plugged to the power-bank for charging. There were students walking about here and there. Few crossed by, the rest walked on lanes that were in front and back.
I was sitting beneath a tree. The flood-light provided me the right illumination to read. With it came a host of flies attracted to a solely sitting rigid figure as myself. Since no man or dog were in the vicinity, the flies chose me with hardly an option really. So I decided to walk about in close circles, slowly, very slowly, holding the kindle in one hand, the other inside the pocket. The phone was left where it had been.
Moments later, two boys walked passed. They saw the phone lying there and lamented, 'Ye kiska phone hai?'. I looked at them. They looked at me. I looked at the kindle. Then, I watched them walk away.
After going a good fifty meters, they returned.
'Excuse me bhai, ye aap ka phone hai?' one of them asked.
'Yes,' I replied instantaneously without a touch of emotion or concern or even a smile. I watched them walk away for the second time.
They had come back to make sure the phone belonged to it's owner and that they were not of the kind to walk away, leaving behind an accidentally abandoned phone.
Such an act of kindness and consideration that humans show one another is much needed especially for our times. I hope the story tells it's own lesson and reminder. I wish I could have thanked them for it.
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