Change in Thinking

On the train, two kids were playing, jumping on seats, running here, and disturbing all the other passengers in a compartment of the train. Their father was sitting near by lost in some thoughts. In between, children would look at their father, he would respond with a smile and then again kids would get busy with their mischief.

Passengers of the compartment were getting upset by such behavior of the kids and annoyed by the father’s attitude.

Since it was night time, everyone wanted to rest but children were still playing, running here and there, creating discomfort for other passengers.

Seeing this, one traveler who was not able to tolerate this anymore, said to his father, “Your children are creating so much trouble for others, and yet you are not stopping them but encouraging them by smiling. It is not your duty to make them sit and make them understand how to behave?”

Other passengers took a sigh of relief that the complaint was made and the father would be ashamed and would stop his children.

But Father paused for a moment and said, “How do I explain, I am just thinking…”

Traveler said, “What do you mean? I don’t understand..”

Father said, “My wife had gone to her maternal home to visit but there she died yesterday due to an accident. I am taking my children there. I am confused about how to explain to them that they will never be able to see their mother again.”

Hearing this, everyone was shocked and didn’t know what to say.

Children were still playing, running here and there in the compartment. Father got silent again. There was no change in the atmosphere but those children who were looking like spoiled kids were now looking like small flowers on which everyone was now trying to pour their love.

In their eyes, the father was not a careless person anymore but a man who had lost his life partner.