Pramisha Kc
When I was first made a part of Today's Story, about a year back and told to get some stories, I took it like a job. People don't always like jobs. Me and a friend, we would joke and travel to some place saying "Let's search for a story!" We would look past the normal busy people, laughing people and focus on the sad faces because we believed sad and poor people were the best sources. We saw a homeless woman in rugged clothes and we spoke to her, or interviewed her, to be precise. She told us about her family, her struggles and so on. She told us about her husband who had left her very soon after the marriage and about her children who grew up hardly knowing their father. I then looked at my friend who had tears in his eyes; that was his story too.
All of a sudden the meaning of a story changed for us. Every face has a story so different and yet so similar. Everyone is sad and everyone is happy. The homeless poor woman whom we went to because she looked sad, was one of the happiest people I had met, even if she lived under a tree. You don't just choose someone from a crowd, walk up to them and ask "what's your story?" What we call a story is often their whole life, and people don't share their lives with just anyone who asks. I don't ask people anymore, I talk to them. I realised that people are always looking for a listener, specially the old ones. Ofcourse some people wouldn't speak to a stranger, but most people love to. You speak a sentence about the weather or the roads, they add their views. You tell them about yourself and they do the same. you say something funny, they laugh. They say something sad, you empathise. They feel so glad you stopped by and talked to them that they give you huge blessings, or even feed you ( like the women in the picture fed us on the day of rapain ). If not any of that, they give you their stories, emotions, experiences, interesting incidents, their regrets and their satisfactions, their tears and their smiles. You never return empty handed.
I don't go searching for a perfect story these days. I just wake up, talk to someone, listen to what they have to say and share those ( there's a little bit of difference) In the course, I make friends. From the little girls who sell tea in Nepal to an old Rikshaw driver in Bangladesh to a travelling social worker from England, I could say I've made a lot of friends. All thanks to Today's Story :)
- Pramisha Kc ( Thought its finally time to write mine :)
Thanking Màulik Maxįmilłian for capturing this amazing moment
All of a sudden the meaning of a story changed for us. Every face has a story so different and yet so similar. Everyone is sad and everyone is happy. The homeless poor woman whom we went to because she looked sad, was one of the happiest people I had met, even if she lived under a tree. You don't just choose someone from a crowd, walk up to them and ask "what's your story?" What we call a story is often their whole life, and people don't share their lives with just anyone who asks. I don't ask people anymore, I talk to them. I realised that people are always looking for a listener, specially the old ones. Ofcourse some people wouldn't speak to a stranger, but most people love to. You speak a sentence about the weather or the roads, they add their views. You tell them about yourself and they do the same. you say something funny, they laugh. They say something sad, you empathise. They feel so glad you stopped by and talked to them that they give you huge blessings, or even feed you ( like the women in the picture fed us on the day of rapain ). If not any of that, they give you their stories, emotions, experiences, interesting incidents, their regrets and their satisfactions, their tears and their smiles. You never return empty handed.
I don't go searching for a perfect story these days. I just wake up, talk to someone, listen to what they have to say and share those ( there's a little bit of difference) In the course, I make friends. From the little girls who sell tea in Nepal to an old Rikshaw driver in Bangladesh to a travelling social worker from England, I could say I've made a lot of friends. All thanks to Today's Story :)
- Pramisha Kc ( Thought its finally time to write mine :)
Thanking Màulik Maxįmilłian for capturing this amazing moment
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