Turning Point

Recently I saw Aamir's Taare Zameen Par and remembered a very dear incident of mine...When I was in school there was a boy in our class who had been the most notorious student.Name a prank you can think of and he would have already done it.He was much more wiser than his years.Actually if there would have been a prize for most mischevious student he would have got it...

But why am I telling all this and how is this related with the movie !!!Yes so now the story comes up.

In 7th standard we got a class teacher who was a "jallad"(I can't think of a similar word in english with that effect)This guy as usual with a quiver full of all mischevious pranks aimed his arrows to everybody in the class of our jallad class teacher.This was an english class and our jallad was taking a literature period.One by one each student had to read paragraphs from a story(I dont remember now some story related with a swan).Then our hero's turn came and he was not aware of what to read as he was busy with his work.
Now Jallad saw this and all his attention fell on him.He asked him to stand on the bench and our hero didn't.
After this moment what happened was a turning point for our hero.
Jallad made him strip infront of everybody and then thrashed him with a ruler.
That day it was a real scene, I saw our hero cry for the first time and it was painful.
I believe he had not done anything so serious to get this treatment.

But this incident changed his life.A complaint was lodged on Jallad and we all supported it.
As a result Jallad was out of school but we also lost our Hero.
He left us and joined some other school and later when sometime he met us he had changed totally.
The mischevious one had become so calm and serious, no one would believe how!!

Some time back I had a talk with him and came to know about the secret.
After Jallad was thrown out of school after somedays he met him and had told him that
"I didn't strip you because I wanted to punish you but I stripped you because I believed you were the strongest one.But you started crying and I understood that no I was wrong"

This pinching dialouge made him to think for few days and he decided to prove Jallad wrong.
The result is out now he is a Major in Indian Army and serving our motherland.

Now what do you conclude.

I think at one point of time in life, everyone encounters a period which has a weakening moment to shatter oneself, but its the worthy individuals who choose Inner Strength to overcome these Weak Moments and take the path to become the person all will be proud about.These worthy people cherish their decision all over their life.