COURAGE

Girija is a friend of mine at work...She was once a homemaker, whose husband was an officer in a nationalised bank..they have a daughter. The husband was transferred to Assam..and the mother and daughter were living at their native place. One day while he was returning to Assam from a holiday , in the train, he breathed his last...god knows what happened...He had a heart attack.



The mother and daughter were devastated...The bank gave his job to his wife on compassionate grounds..The mother daughter duo picked up the threads of their lives and started living..Then disaster struck again...the girl had brain tumor...because of which the smart girl that she was, turned to be a dullhead..she lost her speech and sense slowly..They went to Chithirai Thirunal Hospital, kerala to operate on the girl and after a lot of trouble, she was saved. They returned to their native place in tamilnadu and the mother resumed her duties in the bank. She locks up her daughter everyday before coming to work. The girl is slowly recovering.



Recently, on a saturday girija was working as a cashier ( the usual cashier being on leave).With the festival season in place, the crowd in the bank was unreasonable..in the bargain, dont know how..she somehow lost Rs 50,000/-



Every one present in the bank tried to help her trace the money..but to no avail...at the end of the day, she had to take a loan from a friend and replace the funds in the bank...



I saw her crying that day in the cubicle...



But I was dismayed....when on monday ...I saw the lady briskly entering the bank and going to her desk to start working...there was no trace of pain or trouble on her face...she was her usual self smiling and attending to customers...



I was relieved to see this...Actually girija had moved forward...in her life...she had left behind her pain and troubles and decided to let bygones be bygones, having learnt a bitter lesson...



I admired her COURAGE then....



I feel god selects people with courage to give pain...She is indeed an example...of LIFE itself.



I learnt a lesson...that day.