Today the sky is covered with dark clouds, and it feels like night even during the day. Strong winds are blowing, and the thunder of the clouds in between is frightening the heart. There is a possibility of heavy rain. There is silence all around. The markets have become deserted. Travellers have reached their homes and are hiding. There is a deathly silence in the streets and markets.
Sonia, who was only 15 years old, was returning from her tuition centre on her electric scooter. She was very scared of this terrible weather. She stopped the scooter in the shed of a shop and started waiting for the weather to calm down. But instead of calming down, the thunder of the clouds started getting even louder. Now her innocent heart started beating loudly.
Now she took out her mobile phone from the scooty's trunk and called her father, and said in a frightened voice, "Daddy, I am feeling very scared."
The father asked her on the phone, "My dear child, where are you at this time, and why are you scared?"
There was a tremor in Sonia's voice, she told her father, "Daddy, I am returning from tuition, but the weather has become very bad on the way, not a single person is visible on the roads, strong winds are blowing, clouds are thundering, lightning is striking, people have closed the shops and gone home, there is silence all around." "I am standing in the shed of a shop on the way."
The father had never heard such a scared voice of his daughter before, he said, "Daughter, you don't worry at all, I will come to pick you up myself, you just wait there and don't try to get out of there at all, it will take me an hour or an hour and a half to reach there." "Just control your fear." You are a very brave girl."
Sonia's courage increased after hearing these words of her father, but she was disappointed to know that it would take a lot of time for her father to reach there.
She then said to her father, "Daddy, reach here as soon as you can."
Her father again explained to her, "Daughter, no matter how soon I reach there, it will take this much time. I say again, do not worry at all, start talking to your friend or mother on the phone, listen and tell stories, watch YouTube videos, watch stand-up comedy and pass the time, your fear will reduce and time will also pass, by then I will reach there."
Sonia said in heavy words, "Okay Daddy, I will do the same to pass the time."
Then Sonia obeyed her father and started talking to one of her friends on the phone and both of them talked for a long time, but the time did not pass more than 25 minutes.
Soon after this, Sonia started watching a video of a stand-up comedian of her choice on YouTube and her fear started reducing. She kept sitting in the shed. Some people were passing by, but everyone was in a hurry to reach their destination.
Then she saw the headlights of a car coming on the road from a distance. She thought that her father had come to pick her up, but that car passed by. Time was passing very slowly. It was getting dark. Now it had also started raining.
Just then her mobile phone rang, it was her father's call, she heard her father's voice from the other side "I am reaching in 2-3 minutes, park your scooty at a safe place on the side and take out all the important things from its trunk and keep them in your bag and lock it".
She did the same, and just then her father's car reached there. The father got down of the car and hugged his daughter, and informed the shop owner on the number written on the shop board that he is leaving his daughter's scooty at his shop, he would take it back when the weather got better.
And then he got reassured and put his daughter in the car and left for home. On the way, he explained to his daughter once again that daughter, many such opportunities will come but you "Don't sweat it" Because we always have to control our fear, only then we will be able to control that situation, and you must have also heard "Victory lies beyond fear".
And then both father and daughter reached home. Sonia breathed a sigh of relief.
Thanks for reading my story. I pray to God for progress and a happy future for all.