Awards ..

Scene -I

Its beautiful day.. sun is out there shinning and the cool breeze is making it more pleasant.
The day for the main character of the short story, Rose started pretty good..till a person came to see her. Rose has helped her from her side at the time of crisis..heard the stories of the person visiting her, without getting involved ..

This is still the morning and work has not started yet, today is a teaching day and the semester is approaching the end, Rose didnt know how the class should be run, coz there are no special instructions ? She went downstairs, to ask a person who is teaching the same class ..

Today also happens to be a day, when the people who have done good work are appreciated ..people get awards for good teaching, good research and any other special recognition by the department.

Rose has been teaching for so many semesters now and have even taught two classes when she herself was taking classes and had her research proposal ..whereas all her colleagues generally get the semester off from teaching when they have their proposals. These thoughts have passed her mind but she does what needs to be done with thoughts ..let them pass...

Fron past few weeks people have been telling her that this year you might get the best teaching award and she has just passed these things saying that ..there are many people who might get it ..and morever she has not received any official mail from the department. so she doesnt think its her.

But today, she casually asked a person, do u know who is getting the award this year, and the person was shocked or surprised or embarassed to say anything.

The winner asked her to join her in a silent corner and said, " i am sorry, i dont deserve the award, you do! but rose didnt know how to react to this, so she told the winner its okay .. but the winner kept appologizing and kept saying, how she deserved it.Winner continues to say that she doesnt know who decides that who should get it, there might be politics and what not.
winner would love to keep the money but she would give the award to her..if the winner had a time for speech she would dedicate it to her.

In the end the person had to say please stop it, i wasnt even expecting it so its okay..

The corner was not private anymore as people started comming .. so ended the conversation.. with smiles and byes

Scence - II

Now the calmness, in Rose had dissappeared, she wanted to talk to somebody to let it out and she called a friend..but couldnt get through.. she was getting angry and wanted to call up or talk to somebody .. to share what had happened .. the so called nice morning had turned into restless morning..

the thoughts started passing her mind again, how does one really decides? who gets it????
the winner for teaching award this hasnt even been taught for one semester in a year!

huh ??

Scene - III

She started calming herseld down , she remembered, that her students like her every semester, this semester was even good coz she had a class where most of the students were very good in studies but at the same time there were few who had no clue and they always called themselves dumb!

she discouraged them to call themselves dumb as she feels no one is dumb ..
with little help, efforts and encouragement, she could see them make progress.. last class was even moving as they thanked her ..she had substituted for one of the class for one day and those students still come to her and say that they wanted her to teach them and that they love her..

all these compliments are her awards ...One on hand you say that... then why get shaky for not getting actual award .

hmmm.... be real .. if you actually feel what you say then external factors shouldnt be affecting you ..
welcome back to the nice morning again rose said to herself .. there is a smile on her face and the thoughts are out of system .. some work please ?
:)