Airplanes....

I was traveling to various schools in Haryana on a field visit to assess the teachers’ training program. Around 1:30 pm we took a lunch break. I was really annoyed by the trainings, so decided not to eat anything. Since I was in a school, I just sat on a chair and watched the small children play with each other. There I saw this little kid who had made a paper airplane for himself. He was alone and totally engrossed in understanding the flight of the airplane. He would throw the airplane as high as possible and enjoy watching it fly. Now before I go further I would like to tell you about this boy… his name was Mitesh. The zip of his pant was broken and around half of the buttons of his shirt were broken too. He was wearing slippers which were at least 3 sizes bigger than his foot size and his nose was running. Yet he didn’t care about any of these and continued throwing his paper-plane as high as possible. One time Mitesh put all his energy into giving his plane the highest possible flight… with the result that his plane gets stuck on a tree. Mitesh then took his slippers in his hand and started throwing them at the tree in order to get his airplane down. Mitesh finally managed to get his airplane down but then his slippers get stuck in one of the branches of the tree. But Mitesh absolutely doesn’t care that his slippers are stuck. He was just happy to get his paper-plane back and again got totally engrossed in throwing it as high as possible…


PS: While our friend Mitesh was busy flying his airplane, I and the rest of students of the school were busy getting his slippers down….which eventually we did. Mitesh however was totally lost to the world………
By: Abhineet Singh, Delhi