Jayashankar Jayashankar

Children Stories Drama

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Jayashankar Jayashankar

Children Stories Drama

Purpose

Purpose

3 mins
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Raghuram is a pro-bono mentor guiding a lot of young entrepreneurs  He has been himself a successful business man and was thinking about the journey on this day. 


The events have been triggered due to the big day tomorrow where he would be addressing a big gathering of eminent CEO's/ chairman  from various countries including the Union Minister for Industrial Development.


Raghuram reached the venue, the next day, we’ll in advance and was  Observing the elaborate arrangements. Most of these friends occupied the first 3-4 rows eagerly waiting for his citation

and recognition. Various speakers including the minister started appreciating Raghuram  and wanted others to be inspired by him.


The minister specifically mentioned in his speech that probably, if Raghuram shares the secret of dedicating himself to this particular PROBONO activity which assisted various budding entrepreneurs a lot of other successful achievers will follow to do so.


Raghuram was left with the big task of explaining on guiding the novices. So, when his speech started he thought that he has to be extempore. He began addressing the gathering with the usual felicitations and his successful journey. He then came to the critical point of illustrating the reason for his mentorship services.


Raghuram went into length of stating that he found a lot of hardships in not  having a mentor at the early stages and started narrating an anecdote which changed his course of life.


He has completed his degree and waiting for his result. He was  enjoying with his friends daily deliberating his big step towards life.


It was around 8.30 pm on a rainy day and Raghuram waiting for his friends who were supposed to

pick him up at a tea stall for his favourite superstar movie. He is sipping  the tea, savouring the rain and wondering that it is already late for the show. The clean rainwater already formed a muddy pool due to the oil and grease mixed from the nearby mechanic shop. 


The hazy pool of water reminded about his future. But Raghuram was extremely confident that he will become very rich without  any plan.


He could see the bike approaching and started shouting hey! Jay

Why are you so late – Syed at least should have warned him.

Jay and Syed in a single bike came nearby without further thinking Raghu got in. All three started on the same bike and tried avoiding signals, carts to reach the show on time.

Suddenly, Raghu was on the road, fortunately not head hitting the road. He could see the bike and his friends are also scattered all over the road.


The accident happened due to a pig crossed the road and was violently caught between the wheels though escaped unhurt.

There were a lot of scratches and the bike is making strange sounds, but due to his unwavering patronage towards their superstar they reached the theatre will all the wounds.


They are just in time and wanted to enjoy the movie forgetting the incident. In spite of the superstardom with a lot of entertainment, Raghu was not able to enjoy the movie, due to the accident and its repercussions. It is sentimental to sell the vehicle when the bike is hit /hits the pig.


His friends are also in different thoughts including the injury while coming back from the movie and never discussed after reaching their joint. ( Usually, they discuss the movie excerpts and enjoy the dialogues by repeating several times)

They all went home and Raghu started thinking about the accident several times and realized that by jumping signals, coming late, 3 persons traveling in a single bike all lead to the accident.

So, THE PATH MUST BE RIGHT WHICH ENABLE THE PURPOSE RIGHT


This single thought carried through the years and finally he became the chief contributor to the thought by offering PROBONO services to all the younger generation to get their purpose right.


Raghuram was brought back to the reality, after living through this experience when he started sharing this anecdote on stage by the thunderous applause,



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