Electrician Kannan is a crescent moon waxing his way to fullness.
What sets him apart at the first glance, is the sparkling smile that flashes white in the handsome dark setting of his face.
The boy had smiled his way through a lot of hurdles.
His sorrows didn’t seem to have laid their hands over him. He was born poor in a small island. He saw, when very young, his father’s dead body dangling from the ceiling. After some years he saw his mother following suit by poisoning herself.
His relatives did a little bit of help but it was the Ashrama which took him in. It had already taken him in while his mother was alive.
You can’t say he is very emotional about the Ashrama too. Of course he has affection and gratefulness but he doesn’t carry it over his sleeves.
His cheerfulness is inborn. His pleasant face wins him friends. He doesn’t brood. He lives in the present. His day to day affairs takes his time. It was studies and electrical duty before. Now it is his job training.
He shows great promises.
He is sure destined to turn into a honest worker, it is writ large on his face and talks.
Some fairy spirit within him has held him aloft over rocky cliffs and stormy waves. One wishes that the same spirit will always keep the smile in his face.
The Earth revolves on its hinges greased by basic goodness of a thousand good folks like him.
Perhaps the family which he will raise, will provide the loving atmosphere which he might have missed.
He has the maturity to judge what is good for his life.
Well, what more to say of the young crescent moon ?
One can only wish it will wax its way to its full potential.
One can wish it won’t see too many clouds.
But cloudy or clear, it will grow its way smiling, either to the black clouds or to the earth below.
The moon looks up to the Sun and smiles brightly. If it misses the sun it scowls darkly. Knowingly or unknowingly this moon has kept its affair with the sun.
The moon keeps its sad dark face away from people below. So does this moon perhaps. Or is it that there is no dark face ?
May the full moon be soon and may it light many jasmines below and fill the worlds with fragrance, love and lustre !
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