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Chapter 13 Challenges: They Only Make Your Life Interesting

Chapter 13

Challenges: They only make your life interesting.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.
Renny Harlin

Calm and patient Shruti was disappointed!

Shruti was highly disappointed when she returned to the rink.

She had gone for some grocery shopping.

Being extremely busy with her classes and all, this was the best time she could afford and there wasn't much harm as she’d return within half an hour.

But bless the traumatic traffic today and the accident that blocked her way she was late, very late.

She saw Piu and a group of other kids who were intermediate skaters sit in the centre of the rink.

While the professionals or the medal winners stood on the start line ready for a race.

The professionals skated while the intermediate ones including Piu sat audiencing them. They were supposed to clap and cheer for the skaters who were skating.

Shruti thought it to be a new strategy of the so called coach “Amit” whom Sabu sir trusted so much and ignored it.

She was uncomfortable and even disappointed when Piu and others were allowed to move out of the academy without proper cooling down exercises.

Though she was on the thin line between patience and anger she chose the golden silence as she walked off the skating rink.

When the same thing was repeated on third and fourth day with Piu hardly getting any chance for skating.

 Shruti lost her last resolve when she saw Piu's calves being bruised by the pressure of skates as they were sitting Indian style all the while watching pro skaters skate. If she doesn’t ice it today it would surely turn blue by tomorrow.

 Shruti therfore barged into the rink which was unethical but Shruti was a wild beast of a mother whose daughter, her career and health was taken for granted.

Was this another portion of the challenges, life had put in front of Shruti?

Mother Shruti ought to face it equally challengingly

After her narrow escape of being knocked down by one of the senior skaters who skated like a horse on the field Shruti managed to reach Piu. She lifted her from her Indian style sitting position which was crossed leg.

The emboss of skate on her thighs for sitting on a same position for long didn't get unnoticed enraging her badly. She picked Piu’s red and yellow skating bag and thrusted her tumbler inside it angrily.

“Mom what happened? Mom what happened?” Asked Piu scared to see her mom so angry for the first time but Shruti knew better to keep her mouth shut than to express her anger and make a fool out of herself.

She sprinted to her car with Piu still on her skates as she rested in her mother's arms as she won't be able to skate on the uneven staircase between the rink and the carpark.

Sabu sir noticed her leaving with Piu in her arms.

Feeling weird about a very humble parent's behaviour of not greeting him, he decided to greet himself with a “good evening ma'am” but Shruti travelled faster than words and before Sabu sir could register that she chose deliberately to ignore him.

 She pressure pedalled her car with the engine roaring louder than the anger bubbled inside Shruti and soon mother and daughter  were out of the premises.