Those Golden Days

At last the yucky mid sems are over. The last one today was the saving grace. The following post is a feel good story. I know I am not good at this stuff but this one is surely a genuine effort.

As usual me being the very me that I am, Bina Botal ka Devdas. But off late, for a change I have started to feel the happiness and joy of others as my own. However small that may be. So a sight of slum kids running with a tyre and a stick or trying to jump on a moving rickshaw much to the displeasure of its driver surely move that lost child in me. So do those images of young children complaining to their mom/dad to carry them when they get tired walking or the best part when they refuse to move from that very Grocery Shop until and unless they get their favourite candy make me remember of those golden days which we call CHILDHOOD. At that time i didn't quite do all such things as i wanted to be known as a 'Grown up' and used to foolishly doubt anybody who said that this was the best age.
So now I have started to apply reverse gear and am starting to drift back into the golden age. For a start, I have increased my separation for veggies and am aiming to be as troublesome as I can get cause that scolding which comes from those who care about you surely makes one feel genuinely 'Wanted'.
Here is a narration of a video i watched on Nat Geo, a very very special ending I must say.
There was this mother Rhino and her baby (lets call him Pappu) who where moving in the night. Then the focus shifted to a group of vicious Hyaenas who neared up to eat up our Pappu. Hyaenas mainly are scavengers who go after left over carcasses and leave them devoid of any flesh but apna chota Pappu was like fresh meal for them. So they started attacking him from all sides and focussed on his neck to kill him by suffocating him. The mother rhino tried her best to protect apna Pappu but was unable to do so cause those Hyaenas were very swift in their movements and also benifited from night vision capability. So it seemed like Pappu's fate had been decided.
But as usual, there was a twist in the tale. There came the king of the jungle (Sher Singh) in his usual swagger. Then what, all Hyaenas scattered like a pack of cards, forgetting even the slightest idea of feasting on Pappu who was indeed looking very critical from the attacks.
At that juncture, I felt happy for Pappu cause now he was to be eaten by the king which was a fair deal, just as one gets a sense of feeling when you loose to the eventual champions cause then you can say that had he not been there, then I could have won. So apna Pappu too might have felt the same.
But life as it is, totally unexpected, so there was another twist. The Lion came up to feed on some other dead animal whose carcass was lieing nearby (I know lions kill their prey but this is what happened there). So with the Hyaenas gone, Lion busy, Pappu got a new lease of life and walked away being the unsung protagonist along with his mom. I still can't deduce what I learnt from this but it surely put a smile on my face after a long long time.