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Something exquisite, magnificent and magnanimous is what defines my trip to Kuchesar. Kuchesar is a small village in the district of Bulandshehar in the state of Uttar Pradesh. I have been to a village before but this was different, it made me realize how important some things are and how content people are by just having some basic necessities (sometimes, not even that). We met a lot of people in Kuchesar and each one of them was so different from each other, each had a unique story to tell but all of them shared one exact same thing “we are happy with whatever we have”. I was amused by this fact, it kept me wondering all day that we as people who have everything and more and we still are in the need for materialistic things, still not happy with our lives. I am not saying that thriving for something better is wrong but being obsessed with materialistic things is. As we walked and walked inside the village we found a man working in a sugarcane field. The urge to talk to him made us go inside his house, we greeted him and asked if he could give us his 10 minutes, he happily agreed and we; as happy as we were started our conversation. It was a small house, his father was sitting right next to us, quite an old man of about 70-80 yrs., couldn’t speak much but was still smiling looking at us, we wanted to talk to him but we could see that he wouldn’t be able to speak much. So, we just greeted him and started talking to his son. “Namaste, Uncle. Apka naam kya hai?” (Hello, uncle. What’s your name?” “Rajendra” he replied. We went on and asked him about his family, where they lived and some more questions, he kept on answering without being hesitant and angry. We were loving talking to him despite of the 40 degrees Celsius, he was used to it, we were not, but we still didn’t stop.
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One thing he said that still makes me so happy was “Beemariyan aur takleefe to ati jati rehti hain, hum to har halaat me khush hain” (Sickness and problems are an everyday thing, I am happy no matter what”) . I don’t know why but there is a weird addiction in knowing someone’s story, it gives you knowledge, it expands your horizon, I loved it. After talking for about half an hour, he asked us if we wanted a sugarcane from his field and we excitedly agreed. What I learnt after talking to this man was that even though he didn’t have a lot to offer, he still gave us one of his sugarcane, that’s how everyone should be, basically. A lot more giving and a lot less arrogant. After having the sweet sugarcane from his field, we bid him goodbye and started our journey further into in the mango fields. In the mango fields, we met the most interesting person, he was malnourished but still smiling with his teeth wide open. On asking what does he do here, he replied with the widest grin possible “Security guard hun yahan ka” (I am a security guard here”), we laughed and asked him about his perfect shiny teeth, “Uncle, apke daant itne saaf kaise hai?” (“Uncle, how are your teeth so white”), we were curious, to which he replied “daatun istemaal karte hain hum” (“I use a Neem twig”), his son who was sitting right next to us, started laughing and exclaimed “Nakli daant laga rakhe hain, purane sab tut gaye” (“it is a faux set of teeth, the old ones have fallen out”).
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We all started laughing. It’s crazy how even a guy who is so skinny and doesn’t have a lot of strength, still has the confidence to be a security guard, that’s what I really liked about this man, he was confident that even after being so skinny and having a malnourished body, he had the confidence in his mind that he could do it. We all should be a little like Maaldaar, we all should have the confidence in our minds that we could do anything that seems even remotely impossible. Kuchesar wasn’t just a trip for me, it was an experience. An experience I had never taken part in before, but now that I have, I thrive for more and more such experiences
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