Thursday, October 16, 2008

Hard as a rock yet tender as a jelly

I was going someplace in an autorickshaw. The man was all rough and rugged looking old man. After a drive of 10 mins he shouted "oye" in a really loud way and halted at the roadside. Before I could say anything I saw a young boy with a school bag coming towards us. Without any further exchange of words the auto wala started again.

When I was almost near my destination, he again stopped at the roadside and the boy got down and started to walk away. He shouted "oye" but the boy didn't hear him. He shouted in a louder voice "Abe oye!" and the boy turned back. Once the boy cam near the autowala gave him a Rs. 5 coin and the boy walked away smiling.

I asked him when we started back if the boy was his son. He replied back smiling "Mera bhanja hai. Uska school hai yahan". (He is my sister's son. His school is here.)

Did you see how with the exchange of basically 2 words and that too one sided so much conversation happened between them? And however hard sounding his voice or words maybe, he sure was a tender hearted guy.



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19 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 16, 2008 at 12:45 PM

    :) so less spoken, but so much conveyed. by way of love and care. Proves a point, as words are not always everything!!

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  2. Preeti ShenoyOctober 16, 2008 at 12:47 PM

    Love is stronger than words :) and even ordinary words are special when there is love.
    Nice one!
    Cheers
    Preeti

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  3. SukhalokaOctober 16, 2008 at 12:56 PM

    :)
    You know what? Maybe the one thing we women will never understand about men is the tenderness conveyed in a backbreaking punch and a "Oye Saale!"

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  4. MonikaOctober 16, 2008 at 12:57 PM

    Yeah so true. Words are hardly important.

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  5. PixieOctober 16, 2008 at 1:54 PM

    Sweet post... and yea, sometimes, actions convey a lot more than what words would do. :)

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  6. --xh--October 16, 2008 at 2:55 PM

    sometimes, unspoken silence carries more conversation than spoken words...

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  7. AnonymousOctober 16, 2008 at 3:33 PM

    auto responses? :)

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  8. ManaOctober 16, 2008 at 5:49 PM

    Harsh @ words, true @ heart :)

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  9. How do we knowOctober 16, 2008 at 6:41 PM

    this is soooo cute!!! makes my day! :-)

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  10. PGOctober 16, 2008 at 7:38 PM

    so true! a good one!

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  11. MampiOctober 16, 2008 at 7:43 PM

    Aww, how sweet.
    yes he is a tender hearted guy.

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  12. Cantaloupes.Amma (CA)October 16, 2008 at 11:10 PM

    Good one!

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  13. AnonymousOctober 17, 2008 at 7:39 AM

    Beautiful! I'm so glad that you noticed the beauty in this whole act!!

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  14. Ami loves-October 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM

    I'm confused. Who gave whom the 5 bucks?

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  15. MGOctober 17, 2008 at 12:22 PM

    haha... we are like that only. even husbands walk up to their wives and say - O HELLO... the firsr it happpened to me, i freaked out :-)

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  16. ceedyOctober 17, 2008 at 10:07 PM

    hehehe

    dont judge the book by its cover....a prime example here....oye

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  17. rayshmaOctober 18, 2008 at 4:34 PM

    hehee... so absolutely cute! :)

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  18. PARRYOctober 18, 2008 at 9:30 PM

    I do feel that the rel ship of mama and bhanja was strong and he saw him as his own child.

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  19. Mama - MiaOctober 20, 2008 at 1:05 PM

    arent these the things that warm your heart and give you hope that world is still basically a nice place! :)

    cheers!

    abha

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