“Take precautions everywhere!”
Was the message that an elderly Head of a joint family constantly used to give to the youth of the family. But as usual, many times preparedness was lacking with them and that was constantly replaced by love towards experimentation on and on..
Once, all those young ones had planned an adventurous 'Outing' into the nearby forest. And the elderly was advised by other senior members of the family to accompany them. Knowing well the attitudes of the young, the elderly silently carried with him all the essentials and known gadgets without revealing the same to them..
The adventure began. Soon they were deep into the jungle valley, the time being past 12 midnight with incessant rain pouring and the temperatures touching the lowest. Exactly there only, the vehicle gave way. Self repair did not work and outside help was out of sight for the rest of the night..
The young people were totally dumbstruck in the situation. The elderly immediately took out all that he had brought and made them comfortable and safe for the rest of the night in the vehicle itself with food, warm woolens etc without any need to venture out. The next day morning, they took some help, cut short their adventure and were returning home..
The elderly gentleman was proud. On the way, he said,
Once, all those young ones had planned an adventurous 'Outing' into the nearby forest. And the elderly was advised by other senior members of the family to accompany them. Knowing well the attitudes of the young, the elderly silently carried with him all the essentials and known gadgets without revealing the same to them..
The adventure began. Soon they were deep into the jungle valley, the time being past 12 midnight with incessant rain pouring and the temperatures touching the lowest. Exactly there only, the vehicle gave way. Self repair did not work and outside help was out of sight for the rest of the night..
The young people were totally dumbstruck in the situation. The elderly immediately took out all that he had brought and made them comfortable and safe for the rest of the night in the vehicle itself with food, warm woolens etc without any need to venture out. The next day morning, they took some help, cut short their adventure and were returning home..
The elderly gentleman was proud. On the way, he said,
“My dear! See how your lack of preparedness had brought you to a ‘No-Go’ situation. Suddenly, you had to face pitch darkness where you could see nothing, hunger in the stomach which is a real pain, cold temperatures making you shiver and wild creatures if you venture out. Since I brought many essentials and safety gadgets, we managed. So always follow the Golden Rule..
Everywhere precautions and preparedness!”
One of the young person said very politely, “Dadaji, a similar incident happened earlier too. Actually, at that time we had gone into much deeper trouble. We did not tell all that at home!”
“God Bless you! You concealed all that from us, the elders? What happened?”
“We got the help too. One kind gentleman gave us lift but unfortunately his vehicle too gave trouble when we had gone further deep into the valley to exit out!”
“So?”
“That’s all! Nothing happened. We bravely faced the situation without essentials and with no safety around that night and till next day noon. Finally we were out at noon from there with some help!”
Suddenly, it struck the elderly gentleman that youth have an extreme stamina of withstanding a tough situation to the limits that helps them many times come out of dangers unknowingly they get into where people of his age had lost that!
One of the young person said very politely, “Dadaji, a similar incident happened earlier too. Actually, at that time we had gone into much deeper trouble. We did not tell all that at home!”
“God Bless you! You concealed all that from us, the elders? What happened?”
“We got the help too. One kind gentleman gave us lift but unfortunately his vehicle too gave trouble when we had gone further deep into the valley to exit out!”
“So?”
“That’s all! Nothing happened. We bravely faced the situation without essentials and with no safety around that night and till next day noon. Finally we were out at noon from there with some help!”
Suddenly, it struck the elderly gentleman that youth have an extreme stamina of withstanding a tough situation to the limits that helps them many times come out of dangers unknowingly they get into where people of his age had lost that!
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