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Wednesday, one tough day for the two of us. We came to a critical submit. The point that shall matter so much. Many firm decisions have to be made because it's going to affect someone's innocent life...forever.
I was heavily involved in the discussion for several weeks and the positive impact was felt with both the parties. Initially, he assumed that I do not know much about the case I am dealing with. So, he gave me some loosely cooked response. The response created more suspicion than to believe him. He claimed an impossible mission just to escape the rendezvous.
I have changed the topic because I wanted a more real response. I patiently waited for the right moment to strike the gong. I took a different course. No statement and punishment. I requested for an honest reflection on his strengths and weaknesses. Looking at his writing, he was simply giving me some easy response to escape from me. Next I asked him to give me his childhood memories. I even asked him to give me his best and most difficult moment of his life. All these created more fuss.
Every point was made to make a deeper connection and preciousness of our life. The love and care of parents. The hardship and beauty of life. The power one has that can change the course of life and beautiful and luxurious life one can have.
S.G, would you like to continue with your old habit? Are you happy with your life?
I could immensely feel the intensity of his heart. There was a bit of hesitation even though he falsely claimed that he already stopped a few weeks ago. I wasn't in a rush to conclude anything nor I have any ready-made solution to offer him.
All I wanted was the more authentic response so that I can help him stay clean, or minimize the intake. I would like S.G to slowly change the course of his life once and forever, the life he had been for the last four years.
Indeed, this is some kind of fashion with our youth today. And there are almost 35% of our productive citizens using this hemp plant which is slowly draining and consuming both our health and wealth.
This is a worrying trend we have for over decades now. There is nothing wrong with this but in the long run this might simply become a problem.
Honestly, at school there are a mix of boys and girls who are into smoking and chewing habits from as low as from grade three, or some even before they enter school. Coming from such a background, we don't feel this is an issue to address since we have big influence from our big brother and neighbourhoods.
S.G's best time for doing this is just before morning study, after breakfast, and after school -just before evening study. And it also happens after night study which puts him to a good night sleep. This is his routine. Nothing can stop him but his determined self can.
In the depth of our discussion, I was taken aback of my hostel life, the hardship, the loneliness because our hostel hasn't changed much over a decade –the barren hostel rooms, water shortage, toilet issue, fooding have crunched all these habits.
This is how this little boy by name S.G has forged into this path. Like this gentle boy, there could be thousands of productive youth involved and more are planning to gallop.
At times I have acted rude like medieval rulers to extract more exact points. I have squeezed him like mustard oil but nothing much has come out of this quiet boy. I was happy that his intake has significantly dropped and started to feel bad for his smoking habit.
We could reach many definitive solutions such as reading, walking, playing, sleeping, eating, chatting, drawing to slowly keep this habit at bay.
Whatever, best solutions we agree upon, it is after all going to matter for rest of his life. And there is nothing beautiful than making someone realize the preciousness and power of human life.
NOTE: My achievement of the year goes to this little work I have done in a past 2-month period.
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