Look that’s a worm!!!!

“Look at that guy he has a worm hanging on his shirt. Yes that’s indeed a worm!!!” said she with all the concern towards a perfect stranger.”Ye is it? Why bother come on dear lets mind our own business”. With all the commitment and with utmost perseverance she told me. ”That’s not right it seems to be a dangerous one, we need to tell that guy about it, what if we had one on ourselves and it bit us and no one bothered to even hint us about it”.

“Then why don’t you march ahead of me and tell him about it” said me with a sense of anger. She went quite and sadly adhered to my protest. For the rest of the moment she walked parallel to me not uttering a word or even making a protest to my reaction over the concern she showed.That silence surely made me feel that I overacted.

I kept quiet for sometime but at the back of my mind kept thinking if she was indeed right. Maybe I acted being insensitive. Right, that’s what happened. As we kept walking I was in search of this guy with that spotted worm on his shirt. After much of an eye search finally I found that guy and with the urge of checking on his shirt I pushed myself a little away from the pathway. Yes this time I spotted him and to my great relief it was not a worm but a piece of string hanging on the back of his shirt. Was I reassuring myself that I was not that insensitive as she thought me to be?

At last I was relieved that indeed I was not that insensitive I said “hai look dear get relived it’s not a worm as you thought it to be, it’s just as string”. All quite till this moment and unhappy of my reaction all she said was “Good then...”.

Concerned she surely was I understand that there are a few people in this world who just make a difference with that sense and urge of helping people around them no matter who and what they are.