Hi All, this is Dholu back into Rahul's space. For those who do not know me, u can think of me as Rahul's guarding angel (introduced in a previous blog). Let me tell you a story about Rahul's childhood. Very few people know about it.

Rahul was very fond of crayons as a child. He drew many drawings and aspired to be a painter. He drew mainly scenaries. The one most children draw. A hut with mountains in the background. A river flowing past the house. A tree standing beside it. The sun shining in the middle of two conical shaped mountains. Ya, so conical that one would not be able to sit at its peak (people joked). But, one thing Rahul never missed was smoke coming out of the chimney of the house. Some clouds and birds were also added for the sake of completeness. One thing Rahul dreaded to draw was living things. How hard is it to draw people??? Well, you will not be able to find a single on in Rahul's drawings.

But Rahul was never satisfied with these petty drawings. He used to think big. Think of something more. Something which people will not be able to ignore. In those days, we used to live in a rented house which had painted peeling of from all places. Ya, it was painted long back. An idea struck Rahul soon. He thought that he can use his crayons to paint the whole house. This way, he will be doing something useful and it will be grand as well. He discussed his idea with a few people in the house. Everyone said "nice". Who will believe a 5 year old if he tells you that he will be painting the whole house for you!!! The point to note was that no one thought that painting can be done by crayons ;)

Rahul took the comments of his elders as motivation and chalked out a plan to paint the whole house. "So, which room to start with", he thought. He chose his own room as he used to spent most of the time there only.

It was night. School was over. Homework was finished. Dinner session had been completed. Now, sleep time was approaching; but Rahul had other plans. He took his box of crayons and chose a color carefully. "Should it be green or blue?", he thought. Finally, he settled for yellow. The painting began without much thinking. Just move to a wall within your reach and start painting. The painting could not continue for a long time as a shrill cry was heard from someone around. Rahul was startled by that. The crayon fell to the ground. Then started a round of beating and cries. The painting job took a break and the break seemed to last forever. ;) Rahul remained in the same house for the next 10 years and the markings on the wall remained with him, reminding him of his determination to do something big in life. May God help him do so.