The rightly named “Winner”

I am Vijay, the rightly named “Winner”. To be left behind alone in a downtrodden society and rise to a level that I am now, is nothing but victory. I earn to spend.., to spend for Nidhi.  I earn enough to educate her, I give her all comfort in life that I yearned for. I am a wanderer as my job demands me to be and I am passionate about it. For this reason I don’t get to spend enough time with the Kid and she too understands it. But each time when I visit her place, I see my joy in her eyes, in her growth and progress over the years. Her stories will bring a feel that I have never been parted from her.  When her fingers grip the pencil tight and scribble down those four lines notebooks, when she recites a poem to me complete and exhales, when she showcases her newly painted Stars, clouds, trees, hills and hut I brim with joy and pride that is no less than hers.

Time..,It continues to kill one’s innocence, nurtures new one and it never stops. I am a big grown up family man now and my little Nidhi is grown up too. It is been years now since we met and today am sitting with my entire family at her graduation day. The whole audience looked up, out of their phone to hear the success story of the gold medalist. Hiding her emotions behind the podium, she stood there hosting confidence, to tell not just a story but the thrusting realities. She didn’t boost about her rank, or blame all the toughness she has endured, which anyone who had grown up like her would have. Instead she called her life a bliss. She told her juniors to strive hard and be optimistic. When talking about her future plans, she said “In a long run I will open a school to bring up many other unknown “Nidhi”s and try to be a “Vijay” to each one of them. If not for him, I am just another left out anonymous girl of this fast developing society”. With that her speech ended and the entire heads turned towards me. Wondering whether the entire applause was for her or me, I stood up there holding my tear, afraid to blink. Yes, I am “Vijay”, the rightly named “Winner". I have given back more than what I received from the society, and that's what true victory is all about.