The Smile

You are rushing on your cycle to class with a gatekeeper waiting to enjoy his moments after not letting you inside the class and you are not in best of your moods. One would, certainly, be not in best of one’s moods when there is a class to be attended at 8 o’clock in the morning after a sleep of an hour. Sleep is not the only reason for your sullen mood there is a plethora of reasons for it. Leave alone the thought of smiling at someone; you just want to restrain yourself from throwing tantrums.

Then you see someone smiling at you. Your tension and anger vanish. You forget that you want to sleep and you have enough work that demands for more than 24 hours in a day. You forget self-centric people and politics going on around you. You forget the gatekeeper and all of his kind. You just remember the smile of a kid, full of life and energy with his bag on, going to his school. Sitting on a bike with his father he turns back and just keeps smiling at you. No reason for the smile coming straight from his heart, the smile which you used to have some years back. The smile that takes you back to your home that reminds you that there are people who love you. The simile makes you realize that all which is happening now is just a part of life which has other beautiful aspects too. It energizes you to take on everything with positive attitude.

You reach the college in fresh, good mood to find the same gatekeeper and you smile to yourself. You find people with same attitude and illogical arguments. You get reminded of your pending work with drooping eyes.  Things keep coming to you that the smile goes away somewhere. But once in a while you think of it and continue.