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An act of benevolence
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The sun was setting in the horizon. I watched it and wondered should I walk towards it or wait back?With in the last four hours I can't attain a decision.Should I cancel my name or not?Tomorrow is the last day of starting the competition.The evening sun was drowning in the sea leaving me in the sand along with the waves of confusions!
I had already given my name for about one month back.Clerical work regarding that was ended in the office.The senior students and teachers came and selected us.There were four houses in total by which all the students of the school are divided.
"who can run fast?" the senior students of green house asked."she can"the students pointed me.Without waiting for my answer ,they take down my name and it was 4×100m relay and 100m running.They put me in the final position as anchor leg along with the other three in the relay section.
No much practise were ever made but only one or two times in the school ground.I astonished whether I?Some of the participants of red,blue and yellow houses were good runners I know.The red house anchor leg Miya was my classmate.Seeing her running I understood that she had practised a lot.
Between the three weeks there were enough time for practising by which I am only trying to make my mind up to the task without practising and it was more or less a mistake.
As days passed with curiosity and fearfulness,there happened a death of a student who was a sportsman.He was a cousin of my classmate and my neighbour too.Everyone can see him in the early morning ,practising in his atheletic dress along the road in the days before.He is in the twelveth standard somewhere so far from our school but I can't forget that horrible incident in the track?He is a calm fellow and very much dedicated in sports.
Though I am trying to forgot, that incident overcome all the barriers and filled in my heart.Can I..?lose a life in the track...?no,I can't even think about it..?I don't want to leave my life....My family....relatives....friends....neighbours....natives...The sunrise..sunset...moon...stars...birds..this nature....How can I leave these...How can I leave my dreams behind....?
So in that dawn infront of this sea I am in confusion and finally decided to
participate .
In the ground,In the track together with the players,in front of all students standing in rows and trying to encourage us,in the midst of their applause I am...I am with a highly beating heart!
What do others think if I had gone back in the last moment?What do fate decide if I participate?One is shameful and other some times end in losing a life?When the first member started running along with the participants of the other three houses...My thoughts and dreams were driven out....then the other two...when I hold the baton from the last participant I am passionless...but at last I am the first for sometimes...meanwhile I thought that incident a while....my leg behind.....a little back below the destination mark....red house participant miya ahead...slightly..slightly..but I also won certificates and medals surprisingly...strangely....
After two days there will be 100m running race...what to do? in this evening I had not attained a decision yet.Some thoughts ...names...faces come infront.At last I decided to approach meera who was the sister of the recently died sportsman manu .I asked her about him and she said that he had some heart disease which was found out later.Then I asked""Do you wish to participate in the 100m race""why not"she answered.She was ready to accept my offer and started practising.I gave her some instructions that I know.
she accept...participate...comes first...there started her career as a professional athlete...it transform as a milestone in her life...a bit of humanism through me which multiplies...Though accidently....remembering my neighbour...his sister...she! in his place....defeating heights...for him....for her.....
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© Uma.V.S
The sun was setting in the horizon. I watched it and wondered should I walk towards it or wait back?With in the last four hours I can't attain a decision.Should I cancel my name or not?Tomorrow is the last day of starting the competition.The evening sun was drowning in the sea leaving me in the sand along with the waves of confusions!
I had already given my name for about one month back.Clerical work regarding that was ended in the office.The senior students and teachers came and selected us.There were four houses in total by which all the students of the school are divided.
"who can run fast?" the senior students of green house asked."she can"the students pointed me.Without waiting for my answer ,they take down my name and it was 4×100m relay and 100m running.They put me in the final position as anchor leg along with the other three in the relay section.
No much practise were ever made but only one or two times in the school ground.I astonished whether I?Some of the participants of red,blue and yellow houses were good runners I know.The red house anchor leg Miya was my classmate.Seeing her running I understood that she had practised a lot.
Between the three weeks there were enough time for practising by which I am only trying to make my mind up to the task without practising and it was more or less a mistake.
As days passed with curiosity and fearfulness,there happened a death of a student who was a sportsman.He was a cousin of my classmate and my neighbour too.Everyone can see him in the early morning ,practising in his atheletic dress along the road in the days before.He is in the twelveth standard somewhere so far from our school but I can't forget that horrible incident in the track?He is a calm fellow and very much dedicated in sports.
Though I am trying to forgot, that incident overcome all the barriers and filled in my heart.Can I..?lose a life in the track...?no,I can't even think about it..?I don't want to leave my life....My family....relatives....friends....neighbours....natives...The sunrise..sunset...moon...stars...birds..this nature....How can I leave these...How can I leave my dreams behind....?
So in that dawn infront of this sea I am in confusion and finally decided to
participate .
In the ground,In the track together with the players,in front of all students standing in rows and trying to encourage us,in the midst of their applause I am...I am with a highly beating heart!
What do others think if I had gone back in the last moment?What do fate decide if I participate?One is shameful and other some times end in losing a life?When the first member started running along with the participants of the other three houses...My thoughts and dreams were driven out....then the other two...when I hold the baton from the last participant I am passionless...but at last I am the first for sometimes...meanwhile I thought that incident a while....my leg behind.....a little back below the destination mark....red house participant miya ahead...slightly..slightly..but I also won certificates and medals surprisingly...strangely....
After two days there will be 100m running race...what to do? in this evening I had not attained a decision yet.Some thoughts ...names...faces come infront.At last I decided to approach meera who was the sister of the recently died sportsman manu .I asked her about him and she said that he had some heart disease which was found out later.Then I asked""Do you wish to participate in the 100m race""why not"she answered.She was ready to accept my offer and started practising.I gave her some instructions that I know.
she accept...participate...comes first...there started her career as a professional athlete...it transform as a milestone in her life...a bit of humanism through me which multiplies...Though accidently....remembering my neighbour...his sister...she! in his place....defeating heights...for him....for her.....
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© Uma.V.S
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