Gandhi Inspired Stories - 12

Unity of thoughts



Unity of thoughts

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    A thought of some loved once not in existence on earth is always doleful. One day two kids John and Josh found an immense, gleaming blue gate. An old man with a white chin strip and fat enough spotted the two mesmerized boys and said to them "it is a magical gate that leads to the world of dead and only those with courage high enough can pass by and bring their loved once back to the living world".
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    Both John and Josh had no grandparents and therefore they decided to bring them back to their family. Since, it was a matter of courage and pride, a quarrel raged between the two as to who will bring his grandparents back.
    So, both the kids raised, exhaled in power and then escalated towards the gleaming blue gate.
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    They entered the world of dead, met their grandparents but they refused to come back because they were happily living there.
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    Those words broke their courage and their one-by-one trial to cross back went in vain.
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    John's grandmother repeated the old man's words, "only those with courage high enough can pass by and bring their loved once back to the living world". Hearing this John and Josh hold each other's hand in realisation and together crossed the gate with combined courage.

Union of courage sums up provided there is faith between entities.
By Noopur Kashyap, Animation Design, IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay