I was damn tired.... hectic work at office and a rough journey for 2 hours in bus from office... There was something that made me walk happily though tired..Yes!!! I was going to be with my mom tonight. I will be sleeping with her warmth hugging me... This mere thought was going on in my mind as I was walking....
Those days when I used to walk towards my home, I used to say a hi and have a little chat with all my fellow friends on the way. This person, who sells fruits almost 300 mts from my home was the last person I used to say hi on the way. Everytime I pass by, he asks me if I'm not getting any fruits. He used to select for me the best fruits and I always let him select the fruit for me :) Okay, before I get into today's tale a little flashback :) How we became frens ... I mean me and the Fruit Seller.
The day I started going to market for getting vegetables, I always made sure I got some fruits as well. I used to get things from market and come in cycle with the luggage. One day..sorry night :P while I was walking back from office, I got few vegetables as I had not been to market the previous weekend for some reason. I was walking with a plastic bag full of vegetables. I walked past the fruit vendor when I realised that my plastic bag had torn because of weight and vegetables had already rolled down to road :( I walked back and then this person seeing me, offered a new bag without even me asking for it and helped me with my vegetables. I didnot get anything from him that day but from the next day started telling him a Hi as I pass by :)
From then on, I made sure I got fruits from him. Since, it was summer season, I was getting melons and he always had them but as the season changed, I could not find much seasonal fruits with him. Later on enquiring him, I came to know that he sells just few fruits like, water melons, musk melons, jack fruits and rest of the seasons corn. So, I was his regular customer during summer... rest of the seasons, a regular hi-bye friend :)
Days passed by and once, my marriage was fixed, I was busy over calls while I was walking. Many a times, I missed a hi to that fruit vendor friend of mine... But whenever, I saw him, he had a smile on his face meaning a hi to me..May be he understood my state :P I mean the state wherein we forget the world around and dissolve in the dream world ;) For some reason, I couldnot invite him for my wedding but after wedding once I asked my husband to stop the car while we neared my friend's place and we got a melon from him.. It was summer again...:) He did smile at me and gave a fruit but I doubted if he recognised me... May be because he never expected I would have been married so soon.... I then felt, things have changed a lot in few months and I will be a stranger to the place I belonged to.... Anyway, I started to accept the change .....
Okay.. coming back to my today's tale, I was walking towards the fruit seller.. I was not on call and neither was I in a mood to look around and enjoy the walk like before.. Tiredness had attacked me....
"Hey....come here" A strong voice from behind....
I had bypassed the fruit seller without a Hi :) His voice for some reason gave me energy...
I went to him and smiled...
"Long since seen you...what happened?"
"I'm now married... I don't stay here.. I came today to meet my mom.."
"When did it happen...never knew..."
" Few months back...."
I wanted to remind him that I had once come with my husband and got melon but at that time, I had no words....
"Oh... you look so dull....are you fine?"
"Yeah I'm fine" I replied as I gained energy and my words were becoming so true..yeah I was becoming fine :)
"How beautifully she used to walk by..." He told to his fren standing next to him pointing his hands towards me.. His friend was looking at us with excitment as we spoke :)
"Ok..ok take care... " He didnot wanted to delay my walk...
"okay then bye..."
"Take care"
As I walked to my home, I realised, he never asked me to buy anything from him.. He didnot talk to me in a business motive...How did he miss to sell the corns to me???
It was his business, his living.....
If he had asked me to buy them, I would have got atleast to make him happy but he didnot... His motive of calling me was not business but to know how I was and what happened to me??
I dunno how to express what feel I had in my heart... All I could feel was the same line that I sing in my heart.."A simple smile and Hi can do wonders"
He doesnt know my name, he doesnt know where I come from and what I do.. Perfectly no information about me but my presence in his heart.... I was happy... I was happier..... By the time I reached home and shared this with my mom(sharing like I did months back when I was a spinster), I became the happiest.... :) Sharing means a lot to me and that too to my mom.... My tiredness vanished.... Smile took over and heart felt so light....
He made my day Wonderful :)
Those days when I used to walk towards my home, I used to say a hi and have a little chat with all my fellow friends on the way. This person, who sells fruits almost 300 mts from my home was the last person I used to say hi on the way. Everytime I pass by, he asks me if I'm not getting any fruits. He used to select for me the best fruits and I always let him select the fruit for me :) Okay, before I get into today's tale a little flashback :) How we became frens ... I mean me and the Fruit Seller.
The day I started going to market for getting vegetables, I always made sure I got some fruits as well. I used to get things from market and come in cycle with the luggage. One day..sorry night :P while I was walking back from office, I got few vegetables as I had not been to market the previous weekend for some reason. I was walking with a plastic bag full of vegetables. I walked past the fruit vendor when I realised that my plastic bag had torn because of weight and vegetables had already rolled down to road :( I walked back and then this person seeing me, offered a new bag without even me asking for it and helped me with my vegetables. I didnot get anything from him that day but from the next day started telling him a Hi as I pass by :)
From then on, I made sure I got fruits from him. Since, it was summer season, I was getting melons and he always had them but as the season changed, I could not find much seasonal fruits with him. Later on enquiring him, I came to know that he sells just few fruits like, water melons, musk melons, jack fruits and rest of the seasons corn. So, I was his regular customer during summer... rest of the seasons, a regular hi-bye friend :)
Days passed by and once, my marriage was fixed, I was busy over calls while I was walking. Many a times, I missed a hi to that fruit vendor friend of mine... But whenever, I saw him, he had a smile on his face meaning a hi to me..May be he understood my state :P I mean the state wherein we forget the world around and dissolve in the dream world ;) For some reason, I couldnot invite him for my wedding but after wedding once I asked my husband to stop the car while we neared my friend's place and we got a melon from him.. It was summer again...:) He did smile at me and gave a fruit but I doubted if he recognised me... May be because he never expected I would have been married so soon.... I then felt, things have changed a lot in few months and I will be a stranger to the place I belonged to.... Anyway, I started to accept the change .....
Okay.. coming back to my today's tale, I was walking towards the fruit seller.. I was not on call and neither was I in a mood to look around and enjoy the walk like before.. Tiredness had attacked me....
"Hey....come here" A strong voice from behind....
I had bypassed the fruit seller without a Hi :) His voice for some reason gave me energy...
I went to him and smiled...
"Long since seen you...what happened?"
"I'm now married... I don't stay here.. I came today to meet my mom.."
"When did it happen...never knew..."
" Few months back...."
I wanted to remind him that I had once come with my husband and got melon but at that time, I had no words....
"Oh... you look so dull....are you fine?"
"Yeah I'm fine" I replied as I gained energy and my words were becoming so true..yeah I was becoming fine :)
"How beautifully she used to walk by..." He told to his fren standing next to him pointing his hands towards me.. His friend was looking at us with excitment as we spoke :)
"Ok..ok take care... " He didnot wanted to delay my walk...
"okay then bye..."
"Take care"
As I walked to my home, I realised, he never asked me to buy anything from him.. He didnot talk to me in a business motive...How did he miss to sell the corns to me???
It was his business, his living.....
If he had asked me to buy them, I would have got atleast to make him happy but he didnot... His motive of calling me was not business but to know how I was and what happened to me??
I dunno how to express what feel I had in my heart... All I could feel was the same line that I sing in my heart.."A simple smile and Hi can do wonders"
He doesnt know my name, he doesnt know where I come from and what I do.. Perfectly no information about me but my presence in his heart.... I was happy... I was happier..... By the time I reached home and shared this with my mom(sharing like I did months back when I was a spinster), I became the happiest.... :) Sharing means a lot to me and that too to my mom.... My tiredness vanished.... Smile took over and heart felt so light....
He made my day Wonderful :)
