Think Before You Speak
It was a sunny day, but the climate was enjoyable. Everyone in
the railway station was waiting for the train to arrive. Among the crowd, there
was a group of friends, youngsters who were on board for vacation.
It was a busy station with juice shop, mobile restaurants,
coffee and tea stalls, newspaper shop, restaurants, etc. The announcement
regarding the arrival of the train was made and everyone prepared to get into
the train to their appropriate places.
The group of friends made loud noise to welcome the train as it
entered the station. They ran to get their reserved seats before anyone could
get into the train.
The empty seats were filled and the train whistled to move. An
old man with a young boy aged around 15 years came running to catch the train.
They entered the train and the train started to move. They had their seats just
adjacent to the friends’ group.
The young boy was so surprised to see everything.
He acclaimed at his father, ‘Dad, the train is moving and the
things are moving backwards.’
His father smiled and nodded his head.
As the train started moving fast, the young boy again screamed,
‘Dad the trees are green in colour and run backward very fast.’ His father
said, ‘Yes dear’ and smiled.
Just like a kid, he was watching everything with great
enthusiasm and happiness loaded with tons of surprises.
A fruit seller passed selling apples and oranges. The young boy
asked his dad, ‘I want to eat apples.’ His father bought him apples. He said,
‘Oh apple looks so sweet than it tastes’ I love this colour.’
The group was watching all the activities of this boy and asked
the boy’s father ‘Is your son having any problem? Why is he behaving very
differently?’
A friend from the group made fun of him and shouted, ‘His son is
mad I think.’
The father of the young boy, with patience, replied to the
friend-group.
‘My son was born blind. Only a few days before he was operated
and got the vision. He is seeing various things in his life for the first time’
The young friends became very quiet and apologized to his father
and son.
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