Today, I have come across an incident. While I was travelling to school by the school bus, I heard a girls’s sobs. When I turned back, it was a girl who never cries in our van. Before I could react, a group of four came and tried to pacify her. I couldn’t muster the courage to talk to her even though she is a lot younger than me.
Basically, I am a silent girl in the bus. Mostly because I have no one of my age (everyone is little buds!), but I never felt sad or alone. Firstly, I love to spend time alone in the bus because I could let my mind travel everywhere and think and do whatever I want. I feel free and peaceful for the complete hour of travel. Though I am not at all like that in my school or at home. I speak to everyone, and I think I have a lot of friends.
The girl in my bus has a disease known as Vitiligo (white patches on the skin. I googled this word). So, she was crying because she had no friends to talk to at school and no one wants to sit with her. I thought that even I had to face that situation a long time ago.
Long back, when I first went to school in Chennai(India), everything was different around me. Everyone there were speaking a totally different language, and I could only communicate in English with them. But my English wasn’t as good as it is now. I had faced a lot of problems. Sometimes people say that I become an introvert after going there. Even I feel it sometimes, but if I hadn’t gone there, I would have missed a lot of things, experiences and friends in my life. My English would also have not improved. Even though I faced a lot of problems at first, later on, I realized that you don’t need to cry for friends or any other things because sooner or later they will all come to you. But it may take some time.
Crying or feeling sad about it, changes nothing. So, instead, if we try hard and excel in our activities, friends and people automatically come to you. It worked for me, it may work for her too.
That day I couldn’t console her, and I will make sure I won’t make that mistake again. But I am expressing my thoughts here so that I can remember this incident forever. We should always keep smiling and have a good day. (Don’t cry for anything!)
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