What the heck!! where are your comments?

Today i found out one of my highschool classmates (Prem) through this blog. in fact, it was the other way around. The initial days in the blogging world for me has been sweet till now. all you people who read my blog, i know quite a number of my friends are keeping track, but do not opt to comment, is a sad comment in itself. your comments will keep me motivated to continue with interesting posts. and believe me, i have a treasure trove of stories, and happenings, all from first hand experience in my own personal life, which should interest you a great deal.

Let me tell u a wonderful incident, which happened just 3 days back. read on till the end, and you will thank yourself. i have a handful of foster sisters in india. Let me name one sister among them, as Pearl. Her real name is different, but Pearl seems an interesting name to weave this story. Pearl has a humble background, like me. She is a post graduate student, studying away from her home state. She stays in her college hostel, just adjacent to her college, some 1500kms away from her home.

In Pearl's hostel, there were a spate of robberies happening, all involving laptops. Pearl's subject of study, demanded her to possess a laptop, which she did.

Three days back she had to leave her room for a few moments and she threw caution to the wind. she hadnt locked her room. When she returned back, her laptop turned to thin air. it was a big shock to her. There was no way she could break this news to her folks. she was crest fallen. for everything i know, she was sobbing for the next 48 hrs. in these 2 days, the police had come, investigation was being carried out, sniffer dogs brought in, finger print experts deployed, but nothing happened. she had shared her agony to some close friends. Four of my soldier colleagues who knew about her predicament did something unexpected. They were unrelated to her, didnt speak her language, nor belonged to her state, but had known Pearl since few months, pitched in and bought her a new laptop.

Pearl was flying in cloud eleven when they presented her the laptop. The laptop presented was of the same make. So much of thoughtfulness they had invested in their gesture. they didnt have to do this at all. but then everything cant be predicted, not the least, of how far indian soldiers can go to provide solace, even in their personal capacity.

Hats off to them.
(Hope u liked this true story. You can show ur greatfulness to the foursome mentioned in the above story, by posting your comments. i promise to let them know about your thoughts. love. joshi.)