SHORT STORY – EXPRESSION OF LOVE

This was his new car, a father bought after days of build-up desires. It was his first drive with his five year old son in a highway line at the outskirts of the city. The child excited about the new trip said enthusiastically, “Papa! It is your gift to me and I will be careful that nothing will happen to this car.” Listening to his son’s words with smile, the father insisted, “Munna! Wear your seat belts because we traverse through highway!”
As the car approached a bridge, a villager suddenly intruded with a bicycle and dashed with the front side of the car. Because, the car was moving at low speed, the accident was not fatal. The villager with bleeding scratches in his limbs was standing before the car, with the expectation of pardon from the car owner.
Being, the sole mistake of the villager who dashed, the father rushed out to see what happened to his newly acquired car. The front headlight glass pane was broken. The father with rage accosted the villager saying, “Stupid country man! Do you know the cost of the car you have crashed? Pay me for your mistakes.” The father started to quarrel with the villager and was expecting an equivalent compensation for his losses.
The father after gaining his loss, entered his car, but, he observed his child still crying. In order to calm down his child, the father said, “No problem with your gift and we can replace the headlight within an hour, don’t cry, my child. Our car is not completely destroyed.” But, the child replied sympathetically which bombarded the core character balance of the father, “I am not crying for the broken car but for the broken man!”

QUOTE:"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein