Audacity of Hope...

I start my story...


Anecdote 1:


When i was in bangalore, i used to go office through a busy throughfare called Commercial Street. I passed this part anytime between 9-10 Am (this time being a linear function of the time i get up!). However, whenever i went past this place at around 9.10-9.15, i would see this particular sight. It was a Muslim family, pushing a cart of some fruits. Not that the frruits were any special to look at. The family comprised of the Dad, Mom and a kid. The father looked haggard and old. The lady was always in a Burqa so i was never able to judge her age. But it was the kid i noticed. He was always dressed in white shorts, white shirts and a green tie - a school uniform. He would be there, pushing the cart along with his parents, trying to negotiate that big cart in the midst of the bikes cars. I never talked to him (well, guess its called class barrier!!! LOL). But, i would always look for them if the time was right. Why? I seriously dont know but i found that kid very inspiring. He was helping his parents in earning , and at the same time not giving up going to school. Infact, by the way he dressed up, i could see that he was very serious about the whole "school-business"! it was so sweetly romantic... if this kid from nowhere can dream of a bright future, can't this "well brought up" guy dream of bigger things!

Anecdote 2:

This was recounted to me by my freinds. He was telling me the story of a girl he met at the canteen. Let me call her Jane (Well ! I kin of like dat name!) Jane is a school going kid in Texas, US, around 17. But this cute gal leads a very interesting life... She goes to school, does well in acads, and als0o works and earns living for her family. Why? Well her Mom is disabled and i assume her father is not with them. So she has to earn and pay the bills. She work in a cafeteria ..She wants to go to college but she does not have the money. So she is planning to work for a year after school to save some money. Life is not easy for her, but she hopes for a better future! In her privacy, she may complain that all this hardship is unfair, but she wont stop at that... She knows what she wants to and where she wants to go...

Anecdote 3:

His father was an international student from a a poor african country and his mom was a white girl from Wichita, Kansas. His father returned back to his nation, when he was a young. His mom then married an Asian and they shifted to Indonesia. There, he spent ten years of his life. In due course, his mother died of cancer. He came back to the US. He had no Godfather here, but he did not give up. He tried hard and got into Harvard Law School. I wont try to maintain any suspense here - He is barrack Obama. From there onwards, everyone knows the story! Ya, i copied my title from his book "the Audacity of Hope"....

I cant help smiling when i think of all this...there is something in us that does not allow us to think that our future is going to bleak!!! However dark the present may be, there will be a flicker of light somewhere which will still keep on dragging onwards!...defies common sense...we may define it as survival instinct or love for life!!!Hope.... something that makes us wait for tomorrow!!! The beauty of hope, the foolishness hope, the courage of hope, the optimism of hope......the audacity of hope!!!