A Chance Meeting

On 6th December, 2013, I had to visit a school for the mentor and monitoring scheme. It was a normal introduction. I wished the students of the class and I walked down the class room to occupy my seat. There I saw a child sitting with his head down.

I tapped on his shoulder and asked him what is wrong with you are you not feeling well. The boy raised his head, said nothing but I saw he was a differently-abled child. He looked at me for some time and put his head down again.

In those few moments I went through so many emotions.Though I was observing the class which wasn't at all interesting; my thoughts strayed on the child. I thought he could understand that I was a stranger because his eyes lingered on me for some time. He was in a school uniform like his class mates. Maybe he had his pattern of listening to the teacher.

No way was he different. Yet he was different. There was an innocence, a focus of a different kind. I do not know but I am not able to forget that child.

After coming out of that school. I asked about him and how was he doing in comparison to the other children. Strangely the teachers were all in praise of him and said that whatever task was given to him, he executed that with a alacrity.