Never Kill Your Will

Once there was a boy named Kunal. His parents were very poor and his father sold peanuts. They lived in a slum colony near a large building in Mumbai. Kunal loved music and he wanted to become a singer. He was just four years old when he started singing very well.

He wanted to learn music and know more about it. He thought that he will become a guitarist but his parents didn’t have enough money to give him a guitar and send him to a music class.

One day while Kunal was coming back from the vegetable market, he heard some music. He ignored that music and continued to his home.

He was walking hurriedly as his mother was waiting for the vegetables to make a delightful curry for themselves. Meanwhile, the volume of that music started increasing then he saw a big house where the sound of that music was coming. He tried to read the board which was there on the wall of that house but he was not able to read what was written as he didn’t know English.

It was a music class obviously. He came near to the wall, there was a small window and he secretly peeped through the window. He could see a man teaching a group of students some musical notes. Then he looked around the house. He saw a broken guitar whose strings were twisted. It was looking that it was very old and someone has discarded it. Then he thought of picking that guitar and taking it to his home.

For the first time, he refused in his mind for doing that but then he thought of taking the guitar as it was of no use to its owner. So he did it and secretly went to his home hiding it from the eyes of the people. After reaching his home, he showed his guitar to his mother. Suddenly his mother slapped him tightly and asked him to throw that guitar.

She thought that he had stolen the guitar from somewhere. And she didn’t even give a chance to him to speak the truth. The boy threw the guitar crying in tears. Then suddenly an idea struck in his mind. He picked the guitar and ran to that music class. After searching some time he found an empty plot against that house .he hid that guitar in that plot and from the next day he regularly came to that house at the time of the music class and picking the guitar, he sat down near the window and secretly listened what the teacher taught. By the time he started playing guitar better than any singer.

One day he was playing guitar outside the music class, suddenly the teacher stopped everyone. He could see someone sitting outside. When Kunal heard the teacher saying that, he started running towards his house. When the teacher came out, he could see no one. Then he went inside.

Then the next day the same thing happened but this time the teacher asked the students to continue singing and he slowly opened the door and caught Kunal.

When the beautiful music played by him went into the teacher’s ears, his anger reduced and he slowly came near to the boy. He held the boy in his hands and asked him, why he was sitting there. Kunal said nothing, he was quiet. The teacher said that he saw him many times sitting outside his house when he asked the reason then Kunal told him the whole story. After listening to him, the teacher said that he loved Kunal's voice and he played guitar better than anyone in his music class. Then he asked Kunal to come every day to him to learn music for free! Kunal participated in many competitions with the help of his music teacher and one day he became the best singer of Mumbai and he got many awards.