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"The only way to make people connect to something is to include an element in your talent that they want."

What to include is still easy to decide. But what people want is something that they themselves do not know unless they just encounter it and I can guarantee it for most of the cases.

We seem to get agitated to get something, that we think we want, by simply just encountering it. That encounter may or may not be good, but it is sufficient for us to get an idea. 

Now as readers, you may not know what you want to read exactly, but still, you will all form your decisions on how this write-up is based on your liking, and I can say I might not know what to write about. (I pray I know what to write in this one though) But I'm gonna state a different situation which will move you.

Sekire was a ten-year-old when she was thrown out of her own house by her mother who was a drunkard. She was under such an influence of alcohol, that she literally punched her own daughter for crying too loud and too much. She pushed Sekire out of her house and closed the door on her face. Out in cold, Sekire was helpless, homeless and didn't even have a warm surface to sit on. An old man came along the way. He saw that Sekire had been abandoned because no parent would deliberately hurt his/her child.

The old man heard loud music playing inside Sekire's mother's house and decided it was best to take Sekire along. 

Now the kid was ten years old and had enough brain capacity to analyze exactly what had happened. She knew that her mom kicked her out of the house and someone better was taking her along. 

Again, she didn't really know what she wanted, she just knew she was homeless and came along an encounter, the old man. Seeing the old man, not only did she know he was a good guy but also now knew what she wanted, and that was to go with him ~ ⚡️
 We will never know what we can want. We try to "go-with-the-flow" whenever possible.

But when he decided to pick her up, he bent down to Sekire's level and asked her name, but she didn't reply. The old man thought that it was nervousness that wasn't allowing her to speak.

He gradually understood that she couldn't talk and could neither hear. It didn't bother the old man much. He was just glad to have her company anyway. (You'll notice that what I said, in the beginning, keeps on repeating itself) She had permanently lived with the old man from that day.

On her 12th birthday, Sekire happily cut her cake along with the old man. After the cake-cutting, the old man went inside his room and asked Sekire to turn towards the wall in sign language because he wanted to give her a surprise gift.

Excited and happy she turned away and waited eagerly. The old man grabbed the wrapped gift and suddenly pulled out a revolver and shot himself point blank.
He was dead, and with him was the gift in hand.

The old man lay there covered in his own blood and after five minutes, Sekire turned around. She screamed, or at least she tried to. She couldn't believe that he really shot himself. Even though it had only been five minutes, there was no point calling an ambulance because the hospital's nurse wouldn't hear anything on this end of the line. Devastated, infuriated, and shattered, Sekire fell to the ground and started weeping.

Remember, in the initial few paras of this blog I told you I'd be moving you? Here goes -
If a miracle would have happened at that point, and if she had two choices, and one of them could have come true, what would have she chosen?
Would she have asked for her voice so that she could finally scream? Or would she have wished for the old man to come back to life?
Maybe you'll agree with me, or perhaps this time maybe you wouldn't, but I don't know, but she would have wished for the first miracle : her voice. 
Why her voice? Her anger for all these years could finally have an outlet.
The amount of love that she had for that old man wasn't less at all, but her grief towards her mother and her condition had been so powerful that she definitely would have wanted her voice back.

And as far as the story continues, the gift had a parable within. Reading it, she understood why all this had happened and now she wasn't angry anymore. The old man had cancer. His last deed on his bucket list was to help a special person and to give him/her a better life. The old man had shot himself because he didn't want to die due to cancer, that somehow he'd feel majestic.

When the cancer was detected, that was the time that the old man knew what he really wanted to do and how he wanted to do it. So when he had met the girl, he knew he was one step closer to dying.

Absurdly strange how, by seeing the old man, the girl knew what she wanted and the old man, on seeing the girl, knew what he wanted.

Only when we have an encounter with something or someone is when we get to know what we ultimately want and then we finally initiate ~ ⚡️ 

Maybe you're one of the encounters just waiting to happen to someone, and then perhaps you'd help people know what they happily want, and who knows you may help yourself too in a strange way ~⚡️


By : Shaon Bandopadhyay
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