The brunt of her mistake . . .

By: Smriti Sharma

One fine morning, I planned to take a stroll around the city wherein I could witness some things that simply ram-shackled me. I swallowed hard to on-look the stark reality of life. I was meandering in the lanes of my city whilst I decided to put my feet up on the bench placed in the park. I was taken aback because of what I saw, there was a bench positioned right in front of the one I was relaxing on; a father and his twenty-five year old son were having a conversation.

“Dad, the grass is bottle green, Wow” said the twenty-five year old.

His father retaliated with a subtle grin & the girl, on the other side who was speaking over the phone threw a dismayed glance at them.

“The clouds are moving, Dad!” he exclaimed.

His father again smiled wherein the girl advised the father of the twenty-five year old, “Why don’t you take him to a doctor?” she questioned in a disgusted manner.

The twenty-five year old felt discomfited and the mortifying looks spilled all over his face. He stood up and went.

I was flabbergasted because I didn’t know what was coming next nor did the disgusted girl. His father stood up, wiped the tear which had fallen from his eyes despite the fact that he tried hard not to let it shed, “We just came back from the doctor, my son was blind and today he regained his eyesight. He was excited to see colors in his life!” he straightforwardly exclaimed leaving the girl with the brunt of her mistake.

Well! We keep judging people, don’t we?

If she’s walking hand in hand with a guy, “I’m sure this guy is her boyfriend, look at them they’re very conveniently exhibiting the Public-Display-Affection.” Do you know if the guy is her boyfriend, friend or brother or probably a colleague?

If he’s writes “Fine”, he has attitude. If she writes “I’m busy I’ll talk to you later”, she is rude. If he doesn’t reply, he is ignoring you and if she doesn’t text you for a day, she is pretentious. Is that what all of us assume, right?

Who gave us this right? We can assume and we can apprehend but we cannot form a judgment out of what appears to be because there can be so much more to it. The girl had to swallow hard and bear the brunt of the mistake she unknowingly made; do you want to bear the brunt of an unintentional mistake?

We aren’t the adjudicator’s of our life; it is he who created us. We have got to control our own selves and our own emotions. In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is what happens within us. Perhaps, the happiest people don’t have the best of everything but they make the best of everything. Don’t keep judging people or complicating life and swallowing the burden of your slip-up but take life as it comes and respect each and every individual. Everyone has a story of their own!