Hello Life :-)

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 !