My Grandpa on Skype..!

My clock showed 9.00 PM. With a quite delicious dinner my hunger got filled for the evening. I booted my laptop and started surfing over some articles. My grandpa aged 91 was slowly sipping over his hot milk. With his bold spectacles, he saw me, gradually got up, came and sat near me. He was still strong both by his body and mind. He posed me few questions on my activity grabbing my attention. I answered him patiently for all his questions and he nodded his head as a response. After few minutes, to my surprise, he asked me about “Skype”. I was taken aback with his curiosity and posed him back as how does he know this and what makes him to get knowledge on Skype. I knew my grandpa is an ardent lover of newspapers and magazines right from his early days which inspires me the most. On no doubt, his answer wasn't surprising to me. He said he read it in the magazine today morning and wanted to know more about. It was already 9.30 PM, half an hour post his usual time to bed. I promised him to tell about it tomorrow morning as it was too late for him. Not convinced with my answer, he asked me again without moving away from his chair. I was left with no option to explain him about Skype. It was time for me to go into the books of this software and teach him as how it works. I started telling him about how to use it, why do we prefer it using, when to use it, its benefits, so on and so forth. It was just another seminar which I did after few years since my college days. He patiently listened to everything with great enthusiasm. Finally he requested me to show a demo of how it works. There were NIL online friends of mine at that moment. With no option, I called over my twin and asked her to come over to support. Within few minutes, she was online and I attended her voice call over this software. My grandpa with full excitement said a big hi to her by waving his hands. She was on the other end felt elated to see him. They started talking about things near and far. I could see the gladness and joy in my grandpa’s eyes. I could see the victory sign that he has learnt and achieved something big today. After ten minutes, with a heavy heart, he gave a sign off to my sister. He gave a pat at my shoulder and gracefully conveyed his thanks. With similes on his face, he said “tomorrow I can create my own ID for myself and enjoy being a part of Skype.” With this statement he slowly moved away from the place and went to drowse with a big sing of relief.

It was 10.15 PM, my eyes did not move away from him for a minute. I was thinking over his thirst to learn new things at this age and his keenness to grab one’s teachings. He proved that learning has never had any limit or age. The knowledge you accumulate from your childhood speaks on volumes when you depart from your life. It is all about one’s own self interest to learn and nourish the success, failures experiences or mistakes he has gained in life. A salute to his dedication to add up his knowledge at this age.

In another few hours, the hands of the clock is going to hit 12 AM, the bells of rings are ready to welcome the New Year 2013. On this year, let’s plan to make each day as our beginning and fulfill it with utmost satisfaction. We know that every day is not going to be same as always, but let’s hope that there are some hidden surprises with in and we shall take pleasure in bringing it up. The hidden surprises are going to be our learning’s and teachings which we get and share even from the smallest things in the world; those will be cherished throughout our lifetime.

I wish all of you a very happy and a prosperous new year 2013 with a great learning ahead…!