Aditi Tanwar, Class IX C
Friday
July 15, 2016
9:35 pm
I reached Indore yesterday at 12:30 in the night. I slept as I was very much tired. I had travelled in a train for the first time all by myself and it was an amazing experience. I befriended one of my fellow passengers. His name was Aarav. He told me something which has taught me a big lesson.
He told me that he is a college student in Mumbai and he was going to Delhi because his grandfather had recently died in a road accident.
Let me start from the beginning. Aarav told me that when he was small, his parents died. So, his grandparents took care of him and they loved him a lot. Aarav loved his grandparents but never expressed his feelings. After his class XII, Aarav got admission in a college in Mumbai. While he was in Delhi, he usually went out with his friends and rarely talked with his grandparents.
He used to think that it was his grandparents responsibility to take care of him. Now, while he was in Mumbai and had to be responsible for himself, no one was there to help him. That is when he realized all the effort and pain his parents had to undergo for him. He decided to visit his grandparents and tell them that he was sorry and that he loved them a lot.
A few days went by before he could do that. One day, he received a call from his neighbours. His grandparents had met with an accident. Aarav started crying. He felt bad that he could not even hug his grandparents and thank them. He wished he had spent more time with them and made them feel how much he loved them.
I felt bad for Aarav. I decided that I would from now on, spend a lot of time with my grandparents and will make them feel that I love them.
