A couple of days back I had to visit my aunt, in an hospital. As I entered the twin sharing
room, the first patient was an 8 year old boy who was watching something on a
phone, with earphones, sitting next to his mother.
Suddenly the mother looked up, and smiled at me . They were
watching Ghilli ! The mother came up to
me and said her son was a big fan of actor Vijay and he had watched Ghilli more
than 100 times ! After a pause, with a wide smile, said , she loved my role too. I thanked her and then smiled at the boy, who for some reason, did not make
much of an eye contact with me and looked away.
Sensing the somewhat confused look on my face, the mother, explained
that her son was epileptic and that he was undergoing treatment. She then pointed out to something
on the phone to her son and he suddenly looked up and stared at me. He took the
phone , paused the scene where he could see a close up of mine and then held
the phone against my face . He did this a couple of times and then for a brief moment
smiled at me and what I felt at that
moment was pure magic ! The mother continued to talk as I went closer to the
boy and asked what his name was.
“His name is Jude and he has lost his speech” . I was numb
and did not know how to react, but the mother kept talking and requested if she could take a
picture with Jude to show her elder son.
I stood next to Jude, who was a little restless. He did pose
for a second and then turned away. The mother explained that Jude actually preferred seeing me in the small screen
along with his favorite actor, and was quite content with that J
As I left the hospital, I kept thinking of Jude and his
mother who had gently showed me how it was all about wearing the right kind of attitude, no
matter what and be content in life !
