An ignite to a big attempt…
Once there is a saying called, “whenever you dream of something, make a tiny step towards it immediately … if not, that dream will rest as a dream forever…“
This saying has been hitting her head so hard in recent days. But a wonder is, she doesn’t have any dreams.. We can say that she didn’t remember about it. Even not concerning about her future…. Yet, she is living her life engaged with continued chores in the home.
She is not mad, or weirdo …. She is just living the life with a known source with the chores. She hasn’t completed her schooling, very less admiration about people and things.
In Fact no exploration about the world, she doesn’t want to do it. Totally a fed-up stage… Some kind of emptiness filled her heart and mind a few years ago. Might be after her parents death’. She is currently living in her aunt’s home, where she is just treated as a no cost maid …
She hasn’t felt bad about the way she is treated, and is disturbing her grandma’s mind. Her grandma is here to check about her wellness and to ignite her inner dreams she had a long back.
It’s been five years since she lost her parents… Yes… It’s a big loss… Even it’s a biggest nightmare until her death also. But how could she forget her dreams? It is certainly not ok to give up, because of her parent’s demise.
Grandma thought that she might have completed the schooling by this year and could take her with herself to feed her dreams by letting her work on land.
But here, she is living without any kind of wishes and just acting like she doesn’t have anything. Grandma couldn’t control herself, and busted to her younger daughter about this little girl’s schooling and her condition in this home.
“I’m feeding her mom… I can’t afford her schooling…..”
“Ho…. because of sharing some of your food, you don’t have rights to make her a slave to you and your family? If you cannot send her to school, you should have told me before…. You wasted her five years…. Look at her…. She is living like a corpse…. No feelings…No dreams… No admiration in life and no future thoughts… “
“It’s all her fate … what can I do for it? You should thank me that she is still safe here and hasn’t died of starvation…. “
“Enough…. I’m taking her with me…. Don’t dare to step into my farm ….”
After lots of disputes from both the sides, Grandma won the argument and took that girl with her.
At grandma’s home, she again started her routine work, like she used to do at aunt’s home. Her grandma called her. Both of them came outside and grandma asked her to sit on the green grass and looked into her eyes…
“Hey butterfly…. I fought with them and won you…. I don’t want a slave or a maid for me… I won, to make you win in your life and your dream…. “
The girl stayed quiet for some time. And asked, “Grandma… What was my dream before?”
“Think about it…. don’t enter the home until you find yourself and your dream…..” , said and returned to the home and locked inside.
A few years ago….. She visited her grandma’s house to enjoy her holidays. She was a teenager at that time, and she was like a butterfly.. Her smiles and loud laughers filled their entire farmland.
That blossomed face and her future dreams are too huge at that age. She hasn’t been worried about anything and all she wants is to achieve it at any cost. It is to become a skillful farmer …
To become a skillful farmer, she must be in touch with land and soil. She has to speak and connect with them internally and externally. Should learn about every small grass and plants, should not avoid any tiny details in growing them and must keenly observe the plants and groom them accordingly day by day… It all happened until her parents were alive. They gave her a good area of the backyard, and she created a wonderful garden in that. She got nourishing days and loves along…
It was a beautiful journey she had with them. Like awaken from a deep sleep, suddenly closed her face and started to shed tears, initially for their parents and that tears tore her black screen which blocked her vision to the future….
By lying on the ground for few hours, she started to rebuild her mind and heart. She stood up and had a look around that farm where she used to play and plant while visiting on vacations.
She took a deep breath and that fresh oxygen filled her lungs and heart with the smell of that deep harvested soil. After several years, she stood on land with bare foot. Her toes started to feel the wetness of soil, the palm of the leg started to chill and it made her feel happy. A quick grasp of a smile occurred on her face. She took soil in her hands and applied it on her face, neck, hands and legs.
Grandma watched everything from the window and smiled. That Girl looked around; there were some plant seed packets scattered on the ground. She picked up those packets and started to pour water on the ground beside the rose plants.
She started to dig the ground and put seeds in it. Sprayed some water above the seeds, closed the pit and again poured some water.
Her grandma called loudly to take lunch… She started to run towards grandma with refreshed mind and spark in the eyes….
Lovingly,
Aalon Magari
