A SIDDHI FOR AASIDDHI

The resent unpredicted rains caught me off guard and I was annoyed by the fact that I was stuck under a tree which barely provided any shelter for about an hour with some crazy people of which one was carrying her sandals in hand. It hadn’t stopped raining yet and I couldn’t move but those guys eventually did and as they left I saw the same girl walking bare foot on wet road holding sandals in her hands my initial reaction was “ajeeb pagal log hai yaar!”.

I turned around to check and there I saw someone had dropped a wallet there.

“Stupid people” I corrected myself.

I opened it to see a beautiful hand made sketch of Guruji, an ATM card and a family photo were clearly visible. This could be of one of them I realized.

I looked around they were walking and were some distant way

I shouted “excuse me!” none of the four responded

“Helloooo there Mr. Blue shirt” they just continued.

“Oh miss excuse me!!” the girl did not react.

“behere hai kya?”  I asked myself in an angry tone as I didn’t want to go out and wet myself

But eventually I had to run toward them shouting which made me more annoyed as they made me look foolish.

I pulled a guys shoulder and as he turned around I yelled “dude! You all deaf or what?”

Still the terrified confused guy was silent along with everyone. And all of a sudden the entire group simultaneously got busted with energy and started doing various kinds of hand action and I was shocked and embarrassed and without uttering any more words I just showed them the wallet. All of them checked and the bare footed girl got tensed.  She was the culprit. Then she snatched the wallet checked it as if I was a pickpocket and all of a sudden her expression change and I felt “dude I am so screwed”.

Again series of action were performed of which I understood none, then she did a Namskar and I interpreted it as a thank you all started smiling. I wanted to apologize for yelling but I guessed they didn’t hear as all had hearing disability.

“Nice sketch” I said and enacted. The girl smiled and nodded her head.

“Guruji? You drew it?” I questioned and she nodded with more energy with frisk hand motion close to her heart. All I could do was smile instead.

“what your name?” I questioned slowly and with wide mouth motion like a mimic.

And the name she had was one of the most amazing names that I ever heard

SIDDHI as it was written in driving license.

“SIDDHI!! Woaw!! Meaning unusual accomplishment or self perfection. Perhaps truly justifying her personality” I said to myself regretting my initial comments.

“Very meaningful name…..sanskrit?” I asked and she nodded and gave me one of the best smiles that I had ever seen in my life.

Things that happened subsequently where not important but how it began and how it ended were important. When everything was said and done the girl ‘SIDDHI’ was still walking bare foot on the road and was dumbstruck on my bike racing against time. In short we are so always running behind everything every time that we fail to notice the basic essence of life. Life goes as fast and as slow as we want it to like in above situation. Our reaction to an unexpected event like untimely rain is very dramatic where as a deaf girl just wants to enjoy her walk in rain that happened in middle of summer season and I can hardly remember the last time I walked bare footed on road during rain enjoying it. Its like traveling in a train, you can see the glimpse of many new cities but to actually enjoy it you have to get down from the speeding train itself. similarly by the time we have achieve what we want we are so busy in setting new goals for ourselves that we forget to enjoy our own SIDDHI, our achievements. Some one said to me that what ever you have achieved till date is your SIDDHI and its different from other around you. Life throws this opportunity to everyone the trick is to recognize it and experience it. That’s what a imperfect girl named SIDDHI taught me that day.

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