A tri section bag that was hung in the corner of a window in the room was out of the reach of a 5 year old child not so tall to reach that bag by then. He used to look constantly at the bag whenever something or the other was been taken out of it. He tried to touch and cling upon the bag multiple times but failed. But then what happens with this poor child?
The constant efforts of getting the hold of the bag were going in vain. The urge of frisking and inquisitiveness to check what is so special inside the bag was making him more curious each day and couldn’t stand it. Finally, the day comes when this child decides to reach the bag and check it out no matter what. The scared child first goes out of the room to check if there is someone active in the house or not. And yes, his mom was sleeping in her room and the grandma was outside taking sunbath. The child hurriedly moves to the bathroom and gets the stool that he places against the window and stood up on it. Oh No!! I am still short to even touch it and can’t make it to the pockets. UMM! He thinks he probably needs something above that stool to reach to that level. He grabs bucket from the bathroom and keeps the stool above it to make the base higher. This child is very smart. In order to make sure that no one comes to the room to check, he shuts the door and puts the lower latch. He is still striving hard to reach to a level where he is able to put his hands inside it. But he is almost there but little low. So, he tries to find another base to lift him up. He then uses a pillow. So, he has stacked up the bucket, stool and the pillow. After failures he could finally made it to the bag by multiple hop on and hop offs finally reaches the top of Everest and says! Yes I did it! Huh? Now I can see what is inside it.
He starts frisking the bag with lot of curiosity and excitement. There were a lot of things literally dumped inside that bag. He finds the ball of wool, threads, knitting needles, some pieces of cloth and some 50 paisa, 25 paisa and 1 Re coins. He yells! Oh yes!! Coins!! Slow baby slow!! SHHsshh!! mom is sleeping in the next room. Now, I can buy all that his mom stops him from buying! Huh? He grabs all of those in his fist and jumps off the stacked objects and finds a place to hide those coins and thought a double layered pencil box would be the best! He takes it out from his bag and starts stacking them inside the box, but WAIT, there is some noise of slamming the door. He exclaims Oh No! I think there is someone! It seems mom woke up, I need to hide this! And the mom was there!! He hid the box behind him. The child was scared, drenched in sweat, shivering, with this, coins started to make noise. The mom was standing right in front of him! He couldn’t utter a single word and was so nervous to see her that he couldn’t stop trembling and immediately the box falls down with all the coins. The child starts yelling at the top of the voice “I am so sorry! Mommy, Preeti asked me to get the money as she also steals from her dad’s pocket everyday”. Without even listening to the child, mom turns red in fury and slaps the kid for stealing the coins one after the other YOU HAVE STOLEN THE COINS!! HOW DARE YOU DO THAT! YOU ARE NOW GONE With this the grandmother sitting outside in the sun also comes to witness the show. After mom narrates to her about what the child had done, she starts yelling and gives another slap turning the child’s face red. She started with the statements such as “Today you have stolen pennies, tomorrow you will rob the bank”. Then there comes another slap. Tears started rolling down the cheeks of that trembling poor child. But the child was more scared of his dad’s scolding and started begging mom not to tell this to his dad. But mom being strict could not stop revealing the truth to dad.
Now, when in the evening, dad comes home, after listening to her, he doesn’t scold or slaps that child rather gives him a moral lesson. My kids are of more worth than these pennies so I would not scold you, rather it should leave an indelible impact on you. I don’t want my kids to turn into thieves and robbers. So, I want you to remember this day as the biggest mistake of your life and promise me not to repeat it.
His dad always wanted him to be disciplined in all respects and so he was never offered pocket money for spending and so kids were always excited to demand to get their wish fulfilled.
There was another exciting thing in this story, the school used to attach tokens in the child’s diary for buying eatables from Canteen so that children don’t bring cash to school. Next morning that child was scared to go to school and was fearful that these tokens were meant for writing complaints to the class teacher for all the mischiefs the child has done. But that was the level of fear the child had but now the child feels contented that his mistakes were never overlooked and was scolded for mistakes. Could you all guess who this child was????
Yes, that child was me!
This was the story of an individual who was taught a lesson that and is still reluctant of taking a penny from her dad’s wallet, who is disciplined and bound to her roots of not deceiving, who still is her daddy’s girl and love him for all the support.
Had they not have stopped me that day, I would have continued stealing from that bag and would have not been hesitant about taking money without informing.
Last but not the least, this speech is solely written to pay tribute to my parents who have found out my mistakes and have shown me the true picture of the world. Though, whenever they scolded, I hated them the most but I am the person who loves them the most as the contributor for transforming a mere child into strong, cultured individual.
-Shruti
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