Ojas Mehta, a student of my kids’ school met with a terrible accident today. His condition is critical and we all pray that he makes it thru. What was a bad accident on the sealink became personal for me after I realised that it involved a school student.
I don’t know Ojas or his parents, but all day, my thoughts have been with them. For Ojas, it must have been another regular day to school. Did he kiss his parents bye, was there any conversation that happened? Maybe he was listening to the ipod, thinking about assignments or stuff to do with his friends at school. For the parents too it must have been an ordinary day...perhaps there was some anxiety that he was getting late!
How soon the world can turn topsy turvy! As parents, our worse fear is losing our child. Being a parent is a state of constant worry – worry about peer pressure, bad influences, grades, opposite sex, grades… .And underlying all this is the concern for their safety! We pray for their safety and hope none of us will see the day when anything untoward happens to the child.
No parent should go through what Ojas’ parents are going through today. Not because their child was at fault, but because of someone else’s error. It is heart-rending to think what their state of mind at this time is.
In all this distress, I am proud of the school. Mrs Ambani has been there with the parents providing support and the whole school community is praying for him! Ojas has youth on his side and I fervently hope that his strength and the strength of all the people’s prayers help him pull through!
