A winter with my little friends

It has been such a long time since I’ve sat down to write specifically for my blog. Well, a lot has been happening in life all this while. One is I’ve been interning at this NGO where I had to teach children English apart from studying the management and the organisation structure. I enjoyed every bit of it. There is however a lot I’d like to share on my blog with people. It took me a lot of determination to go there every day. Especially because the area was remote and I had to change 2 buses every day to reach there. And two buses again to get back home. Initially, I enjoyed that too. Especially because Bangalore was a new city to me and I enjoyed exploring it and that too on my own. It made me feel so good and so confident about myself.  Being able to walk on the roads with your head held high is one of the best feelings in the world you know; especially when there’s no one but your own brain to direct you. I totally enjoyed commuting to work every day like that... initially; that is. Later I found it a bit exhausting. I wanted to have my own source of commuting with lesser hard work. And every time I went there, I was welcomed with a stench and a not-so-pleasant sight of debris and litter just in front of the office entrance. I told myself that if the students here were rich enough to afford hygienic surroundings, they would not be here in the first place. And since I pledged to contribute to the country’s upliftment, all this clutter seemed like my own. I kinda felt responsible to wipe it out. Interacting with those children and teaching them was an incredible experience. It made me realise how much power I had in influencing their lives and making a positive impact on them by this little attempt of reaching out. The children had an ineffable innocence about them. They were so happy in that little world of theirs; unaware of the race outside. Unaware of that fierce rat race, they were so ignorant. It taught me the meaning of that old adage, “Ignorance is bliss”. No complexes, no issues. Well, I know one thing for sure; I’ve learnt how to be a kid again with them. They’ve taught me as much as I’ve taught them, if not more. It was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. I will cherish it for a very long time. 