You Made My Day!!!

One not so fine Monday morning, when I sat in the cram-full college bus looking out through the window with a rather lugubrious look on my otherwise comely face, laden with the heavy bags of fellow lugubrious looking but standing friends, my almost blank brain wasn’t expecting anything to cheer me up. As a rule, it is always after negotiating a few mighty traffic blocks that we reach the college gates. And that day was no different and we were met with a colossal one!

A school van had stopped outside my window and I was staring inside the van blankly, of course, without realizing that I was. And when I realized, I saw that most of the little occupants were busy chatting away. But a pair of wide curious eyes was looking at me, and the mouth was chewing on what appeared to be an apology of an ID card.

I smiled reminiscently, more to myself, thinking of the good old LKG days when I used to bawl all the way from home to school, and then continue. No…I haven’t changed!
But then the little girl let go of the ID card and broke into a smile. A prettier sight I’ve never seen!

We smiled at each other for a long time and when our respective buses moved away we waved till we could no longer see each other. I kept smiling all day which quite predictably raised good many questions on my sanity.

The cliché “you made my day” never really made much sense to me before that day…but little dearie u really did make my day !