Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?
Mr Karnik was a fifty-five years old copy editor at a daily newspaper. He had been working for the same newspaper for almost all his life, but he had done it with utmost dedication.
Mr Karnik was also the author of two books on geopolitics. The people he conversated with were very few, and many of them had never seen him either joke or smile. He always carried this serious expression which kept people away. Most of them thought of it as a consequence of the sheer brilliance and talent beyond others.
Mr Karnik was planning another book, so after he came back from office, he dedicated his time to it. His wife was used to the existence of a few words between them, she had come to accept life as it was. They had a son and daughter and life was otherwise very comfortable.
“He did smile for a few years and while some may find it hard to believe, he smiled a lot. I believe it was when our son and daughter were still children,” Mrs Karnik told people, and she often looked at the photographs of that time period, they were priceless.
Yes, Mr Karnik only smiled for his children, but it was not for only his own, but all the children he would come across. He would not only smile, but also sing, dance and play with them if they liked it.
“The other day, I saw Mr Karnik playing hide and seek with children. I almost did not recognise him with that smile and playful body language,” said the next-door neighbour Mrs Maraj to Mrs Karnik one day
“Maybe a grandchild ought to bring the smile back to the house,” said Mrs Karnik who was in the process of finding a suitable bride for her son
No one really understood how a man so serious within the adult world could transform to such an extent when he walked into the world of children.
“Do you think maybe he has understood something about the world which makes him dislike the adult population?” asked Neeraj an intern working under Mr Karnik to another intern Neha
“I think it is something unique about him,” said Neha, “all of us have it, something which defines us more than the rest in our own way, whether it is acknowledged by the world or not.”
Written by Anuran Chatterji
Early Morning Memories 
One response to “The unique us”
Yes children are very accepting and forgiving…
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