Its never late

After dinner at an Indian restaurant, I was traveling to home by bus. An old man sat next to me , after few minutes of travel I got a call from my friend Sridhar, it was a long call , due to sound pollution I was talking a bit louder, my voice is good enough to disturb old man’s mood. His health seems to be not good, he was looking seriously at me, it was an important call for me so I saw at him with an apology face and continued the call. When I told to Sridhar about this old man situation, he asked me “ till now you didn’t talk to that person aa????””, I think Sridhar’s impression was that old man would have known to me by that time…..After the call , old man still having bad impression on me.

Its Sridhar, who reminded me that I should have spoke to him by then so that my voice might not have created that much disturbance. Anyhow I told to my self that its not too late as I have few more minutes travel, its me who created frustration for him, so its my responsibility to take that off. With low voice I apologized but no response, second time apology-nodded his head, third time I told him gently that “ I am trying to talk to you so that you may forgive and leave the bus with good feeling”, I think he was impressed with my approach and started asking me questions like where I am from, what do I do so on…… it was between 5 to 10 minutes travel after the call, so many things happened in that time, he forgot his frustration, lot of questions and answers exchange, he opened the bag he was carrying and showed all the bronze drawings very fast as our stop is coming. He is a professional painter, he paints photos with metals like silver , bronze etc.. which very few people can do. He was a well known actor also, and he was having stage performance contracts with American associations so on…., he is in his 70’s to 80’s……..all that glory seems to be gone by. When I requested , he accepted to take photos of his drawing with my phone , he said ok to publish on my site. We two were the last to get down the bus, as always I forgot the way from bus station to my next bus stop, he came all the way and showed me the bus stop and dispersed. I am sure he left the place with a very good feeling.

What a strange life, in 15 minutes how many things happened, its never late to do any thing. If we have determination and try with honesty, even in the last minutes we can achieve what ever we want. Honesty always play key role in life. Attached are the pictures of his drawings and his acting days.

Its my wife birthday tomorrow, she is traveling from grand parents place to her parents place, travel disturbing her health, I do worry though I won’t express to her. I should have been with her to celebrate her b’day as she likes celebrations. I think her birthday resolution seems to be not to spend money on useless things. She is a girl born with golden spoon, I would like her to be as she was but somehow she seems to be changed. She is my best friend, I can talk anything and everything so is she, and tonight I will be thinking all these days of togetherness and how the time running.