A Daring Smile

I can never forget that day .I was discussing about our course of studies with a group of friends.One friend(who has an exceptional talent of getting hint of future) , suddenly asked me “ have you ever stayed alone in a lonely place?” I was little surprised. Even though I was pretty aware of his habit of asking such type of unusual questions , I couldn’t relate myself to the question at that particular moment. He asked once again ,now with an example , "imagine you would be left in a boathouse or in a jungle all alone where no one can reach you, what would you do? How would you feel?? ” I just smiled, considered it’s the best way of answering such type of question. Latter on , as per my usual practice of discussing all the things with Dad ,I felt an urge to know what he meant by that question? and why he throwed the question at me while the whole group was present there. Dad thought for a moment and said may be he is trying to tell you that at one point of life you will find yourself all alone in the world.
And now after going through that one point of my life, I realize what he was trying to tell me. And if I would have a little hint of what it feels like, I would have never dared to give that smile[:)] as the answer for sure.

~Ani~