Bsc. Library Science
That time I was in the sector, unrelated to me, I mean I'm in Library...
as I entered into the library,
actually I was forced to go...and there's no place in the college I roam except library...the power supply cutted, leading it as the "darkest room" ever seen...
and it's a perfect spot for something anyway I entered...two nerds at the corner of the library chair was cursing the power cut with the words I never know, nerds do get heated up when you fuck with their study mind...and I was shocked...
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"Sky?"
the librarian interpreted...
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Maybe it's true,
they say when a good hearted person enters a dry land, the land suddenly starts being greeny,
when they sow seeds on crop land, harvest means profit,
when water scarcity is said they look the clouds it starts raining creating stroms and flood
Maybe this librarian to this Library is like that...as soon they entered the power came...and the nerds stop cursing which almost made me alive...
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"Good morning" I greeted
Actually they are just 6 years older than me and an assistant librarian...they came up for training purposes... I've known them before and I was seen them as a friend...
"Why you here?" they was shocked
me too I don't have an answer and I'm not that Person you can see in temples of nerds...
"Dunno just came, anything interesting to see?"
"Nothing to see, Only to read what's your genra by the way?"
"Comdey? I like comdey stuffs anything there?" I was eagered
"This is college Library and all you can surfer here is syllabus material"
"C'mon you should make the reader to read, make any visiter excitement about library if you say, what you said to me...no one will come visit Library..." I commented
"what you wanna me to do? peoples never fond of reading..." I would see a sensation of sorrow in their face...
they picked up every shuffled book and kept in the order of the rack, buddy must love this job...
"why you study library science?" I was curious...
"I love visiting library since from the childhood, I started reading books at the age of 8 and went visiting the nearby village Library alone at 10 and I'm continuing it still now,it became a habit...I like my librarian Mam, Saratha Sri I asked her what to study to be her... she's the head librarian...
she said, that if I love reading books, following the protocols of it, get a degree in Lib.Sci and Experience, Patience make me her...So I did studying it" a sense of Happiness glown now...
"Intresting, peoples like you do live in this Earth amazing...so your parents, how they react?" I was in tip of my excitement
"Absolutely they declined my opinion" they said griping a book tighter...
I really dunno I should ask further or stop throwing my questions to them but I wanted to know... it'll help me personally... knowing peoples experience is fun and sorta useful...so choose the people who give an ear of yours...
"Well are you Okay?"
"Huh? why? I'm damn fine..." as they said, they giggled
"What your laugh means?" I was BEWILDERED!
"Well what makes you think I wasn't?"
"When you said yours parents aren't Okay of your opinion, you gripped a book so tighter it would get Bursted with the interior force of resistance your hands applied to it..."
they stared at me...well I guess my last sentence was weird comparison and I knew it...
"Excuse me" I said to make pass the time out...
"Sorry, I was Remembered something...my parents want me to get Physics or Clear JEE main to enter Engineering college"
Now the conversation was getting fun and heated up...
"Sky you like physics?"
"Huh?" I was not in the line
"I mean Do you like Physics???"
"Sorta, Quantum physics, a little..."
"Then why medicals?"
"Just because you like it...does it mean you should choose it?"
there was ominous silence...did I said anything wrong? people's silence was always like this to me ...like why they get suddenly turned off? did the milk overflowed on the flame?
"Hey what?" I said
"Nah...just wondering...you can't choose what you like then? then why you like it anyway?"
"Maybe you like something more than what you like about that thing..." I replied...
"So, medical you like more than physics?"
"I don't know...I was not into academics...mom choose it and I'm studying... simple"
"Are you serious?"
"fucking serious" too late to understand I used a f word...
"I'm mean yes"
they laughed...
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"Tea?" they offered me one...
"Can I drink?" I asked
"Sure, it isn't poison, see I'm drinking" they smiled
"I know it's not poison, I'm just a student how I can get staff's tea...?"
"C'mon drink I'll take care" they slide the paper cup of hot tea
no wonder, in rainy climate hot tea was perfect combo! to heart
"Are you cold?"
"Yeah, I was in high fever..." they asked it because I coughed at their every conversation, that made a worst bgm for their answers...
"You should take care of yourself... medical student na...? be healthy first and then cure peoples" they laughed like they cracked a best joke...
"So, continue...So how you make them accept that you'll study lib.sci?" I made that track again...
"I bet my Journey is boring..." they muttered, that I can almost heard...
"I'll listen, if you want too...not forcing you, if you want to share you can...if not, no problem...who knows maybe I'll share this to many ..."
"Are you serious, you'll say this to everyone?" they stunned...
"Nah... I'll write about it... people who are in your track of life will read, it helps"
"Seriously?"
"Stop asking questions...can you share it?"
"Okay write it, if you found that's worth..."
"Okay, then make worth to write it..." we shared a smile...and they continued saying...
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"My dad was a mere carpenter, fortunately god gifted him with stunning skills, that every work in woods he did was precious... everyone was wondered about my father's talent...even though we aren't rich we aren't poor though, we had fan in summer to make us pretty cool and bed sheet to make us warm in winter, few dress to wear out and some food to eat...we had enough to live a life..."
"My father was very honesty person, he does what he's truthful for what he, does for...never betrayed one...so faithful in his business...you know, I always think to be like my father...I adore his skill..."
"Life sucks, when your cousins are in IIT or NIT or in IIM... It happens the same my father wanted me to get into the institution..."
"I never liked it...I was forced to join the Math_Computer group in my 11th to join a computer engineering in IIT to crack JEE MAIN..."
"At a point in my life, I tried to study for Jee main I never wanted too, but I did and yeah...I haven't cracked it... it's not a pista shell you can crack but a coconut... fucking hard coconut...my dad said to wait a year and learn or even took coaching classes for Jee...but I stopped him...I stood up for myself...I can't be Raj, or Shalini of my cousins to study in IIT or IIM .... I'm me... I've my own designation..."
"My father never accepted it... for him studying library science was cheap...that night tears rolled down on my cheeks...so this world only sees you, only if you're a Medical or Engineering student...so Arts and Commerce are never respected? if so why the fuck, college keep it anyway?"
"I protested, I said if I learn it I'll be happy, I'll be satisfied enough to lead a life... May I not earn in crores but I'll gain my happiness in millions"
"My Mom supported me,. and my dad was still in desulions...the concept is I don't want to waste my father's money in the field I don't like, even though there's scope to get plenty of job, the concept is I not like it..."
"I made him, to know the importance of library I shown him many books of his interest...he understands that I like my field and he can't change me... ofcourse I can't change my father neither...to him I wanted to crack jee main..."
"When life gives you lemons, made lemonades...so I did, I said him make me learn library science for 1 year I can't sit or go for coaching classes... I'll go for library science and I'll still study for jee main...I lied, but yeah I promised him to show improvements, the more improvement I show, the probability I can study lib.sci increases, my father was having a hard time believing me... ofcourse I'll try to crack jee but sure after I complete my bachelor's in lib.sci...i came to know I wasn't lying I'm postponing my father's target as while I'm Completing mine first..."
"You know my course cost less than the coaching classes for jee main...1 lakh for coaching classes but library science it's 56 thousand per year...I was glad I'm making my father less burden..."
"Atlast, I completed my bachelor's in library science and I'm happy"
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There's another cup of tea, the aunty poured us, when librarian signalled inbetween the conversation when our cups become empty,we have completed our first cup of tea without biscuits but their conversation was full enough to ask for a side-dish...
we sat quiet, the newly arrived tea's aroma smelter sweet, the air around us, gets fresh... silence ...I liked it now...like this, I liked it....
So I started...
"it's mesmerizing!" I said...well I'm not good at compliments I guess... maybe some people don't appreciate, because they don't know how to do that...
they laughed
"But you know" I extended again
"What but?" I guess I awoken them...
"You aren't a burden between, it's actually a parent's duty and not a burden by the way,
if any parents got a child the idea is to educate them with knowledge and empower them with skills to live in a society, that's their foremost duty as a parent...
The child reflects their parents,
so I guess you aren't needed to bother about being a burden when you study, you aren't being wrong, you are right in the field of education, passion and knowledge, you aren't a burden...
May you stop thinking this,
Because sometimes in life this thought of us, makes down... it's their duty to provide" I completed with no breath taken full
all I would know is their staring that meant a lot where can't able to fill up the void....it meant more and more than anything I would imagine...
"Well, my dad used to say me this..." I said
"How come he said? you said him like you felt like a burden like thing?"
"Nah.... I've not, all I did is enjoying and having fun...once when we are chatting I got this wisdom of his.... simple" I said
"It's perfect, maybe this is what, I want to hear"
"Maybe yes, that's why we traverse humans, .
human are just mere roaming books with personal stories and experiences which are sorta enthralling to know and they are needed to be found to be solved"
we both laughed, as the rain poured we went out for a walk, just inside the campus...
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The tea we have in our room kept untouched, we totally forgot about it... they way they narrated was interesting...and the rain walk was perfect.... we haven't drenched, but stand near the shades of trees or buildings, the probability is less that you'll stricken by lighting under a tree, so I guess I wanted a Faraday cage to make us less care about less care about lighting and more about rain...I was thinking physics absolutely!
I had fever but, I never cared...
I thought about having butter biscuits as it's the best combination for it ...
"Excuse me, they tea was chilled can we get another cup?" the librarian said
ofcourse it was chilled...
"So, it's amazing...So BSC in lib.sci interesting....so your college had that course?" I asked this because I have heard they from village area...
"You know they call it luck..." as they said they giggled...
"What happened?" I was curious
"My Mom wasn't Interested sending her Only child away ...but I'm ready to do whatever for my passion but mom's topics are another type of hot chilli powder...when I said I wanted to go out in hostel she cried...I can't make her cry or sad...so that's where the twist is"
"What's that twist?" I was wondering in eagar...
"You want anything for tea?" they asked as our hot tea arrived...
"Butter biscuits or Salt biscuits kinda hungry" I commented
"Aunty one each pack on both" they said
And we dipped the biscuits as we ate and Completed our drink, ofcourse we did I don't want this tea to get chilled again and that aunty would give us dead glare why we waste tea twice...
"So continue? what's that twist???" I continued
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"You know Saratha Sri mam I mentioned above right, she was my school librarian too
she helped me a lot deciding my books, and everytime I ask help or most of my clarification from her ...
my mentor to be precise and then when I said I wanted to join one in lib.sci,
she became a professor in the college of where I can join...
she's the first librarian in the college, I found it special for me a teacher was interesting, for me someone taking efforts was heart touching...
it's the first time a new course in college...only 10 members in the course the principal neglected this course of less students but saratha mam tried her best and then I came to spread this course a lot,
I made Friends in college and said them about this course and also said it was to village peoples it cost less fees...and one month efforts dragged a total of 34 students and the course sustained, Saratha mam was happy,
me too... 6 papers all where by Saratha mam...
when different teachers are coming for every paper, Saratha mam handling all papers was kinda tough I helped her too...and I made it...I made my gold medal in it...
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There was an tear on their right eye, According to psychology right eye tear depicts happiness...I want to speak but I don't want to ruin their happy moment...I kept silent...I want them to live in it...
"Aunty another one tea?" I asked her...
I was bold enough now... librarian will handle it...
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"And you know now people trained by her were in NIT, IIT or IIM as professors... don't you think it's amazing?"
"Absolutely!" I Clapped my hands...to make them feel happy
"My father wanted me to study in NIT, Now me I'm going to work in NIT..." they said...
"Yeah, I got an offer letter and I'm reach for training..." they continued
"Wah!" I was stunned and I can't come up with any more interesting interjections... I'm statued...
"And I'll go to my own College where Saratha mam is on head in-charge I wanted to be with her...and I took NIT just to prove library science was more than worth more precious..." the boldness they had was shining bright...
"Sure, perfect decision" as I said I slided the tea to them they drank so proud...
the bell rang, I haven't study a bit for the tomorrow Microbiology exam but all I know is, I have gain more than what I want to learn...it helped me...
I thanked them and went out in hurry...
"So Sky will you write about my boring life, I said it's not something needed to get written" they declared in a grin
"Of course, it's not something to be written but to been scripted in rocks people should have to know about you... I'll write it... I'll write... I'll and I'll definitely" I said...I said ...I said...and ran away faster to write...
© Sky's tale