A Day Worth to Remember

By Bhargavvi Atul Bajpai

On one particular day, there was event being organized in the national

capital while the invitees where talking to each other about the

schedules, while organizers of the event where running from here and

there to do last minute checks to ensure that there’s no error at the last

minute, even as everything was chaotic, a young girl entered the

premises of the event, everyone’s eyes went on that girl. Those in the

crowd looked at her with pride and happiness, even as she was about to

meet her ideal, she could hear a bell go...wondering what it was, she

decided to turn back and she turned back, everything was blur...

That ringing sound was nothing but an alarm bell which woke her up,

what all she saw was only a dream. The ringing alarm bell served as a

reality to her that she needs to get back to her own life and strive back

hard, she took it hard and thought she’s not meant for those good things.

Even as her mother readied her tiffin and her father dropped her to the

bus stop, she was in deep thoughts and as she boarded her bus, her

long journey to her college began. Even as she boarded bus, train in her

long journey of hers to reach, she was quite reflective of what had

happened in this particular year.

This year was quite turbulent for her as she was getting accustomed to

new things in her life, be it getting back to college after a long period of

time or her recent book launch which had a poetry collection. She

expected some support from her near and dear ones, however things

didn’t go as well as she expected, but her parents stood by her and

supported when she needed that the most. She got a lot of support from

her faculty where she was studying. Even-though she was motivated

from the very kind words of her parents and teachers, something which

kept going was her ideal’s speeches and the struggles that person in

particular went through.

As one of her lectures got over, she was sitting in her classroom, writing

two or three lines:

“Time is racing ahead of us

But we are not healed yet

The Wounds of the past still haunt me

Wounds are so fresh that they keep pricking us like present

It feels like never-ending

Time is racing ahead of us”

Even as she wrote the poem, she had tears in her eyes and was heart-

broken over the events which had transpired with her in the recent past.

Nevertheless, she held herself up and attended the rest of the lectures

and was heading her home. As she boarded public transport, her faculty

called her to inform her something, she said “Hello Anandita, Firstly

congratulations! Your hard-work has paid off and you’re being

facilitated at a mega event in the national capital next week!” Yes,

she was Anandita, a young girl with the courage and creativity. Despite

of whatever she faced in her child-hood, nothing could break her spirits

and she emerged stronger than ever.

When she reached home and informed her parents about this, they were

elated and emotional for her, she also felt emotional about this because

she really longed for this day when her work was recognized.

One week later, the d-day arrives. On the event day she reached the

venue on time, she headed to the main-hall she could see invitees were

talking to each other and the people who had organized the event were

doing last minute checks to ensure that everything is fine, she felt that

this is the same thing which she saw her in dream and it didn’t feel like a

reality. One of the closet person to her ideal saw her standing in the

corner, he took her to her ideal. Her ideal was busy talking to some of

the invitees and as he saw her, he kept gazing her with utmost

happiness and pride, she rushed to meet him. He exclaimed “Anandita,

I’m so happy to see you here! You’ve made all of us proud! Despite

of all the adversities thrown at you, you’ve come so far! We all are

proud of you!” He blesses her!

Meanwhile Anandita who was over-whelmed by her ideal’s appreciation

on her, breaks into tears and thanks him for supporting and being

inspiration as always, as the event progressed and as her name is called

to receive the award, she came to the stage and spoke a few words “A

big thank you to my parents, faculty and organizers of the show

who have supported and lifted me in their appreciation and respect,

thank you for being with me when no one was there, thank you

once again” after this she left the stage and everyone clapped for her.

After the event ended, she gave signed copy of her book to all esteemed

guests and her ideal and since her book got a lot of great promotion,

many purchased her book and her poetry collection garnered lot of

appreciation for which she was happy and content, as she did really well

in her academics, she also started focusing on her poetry and stories

more with a pledge to herself to have trust in timing.

By Bhargavvi Atul Bajpai