What is an Experience?

Until last Sunday I thought of everything that have happened to me ever since as an experience. Barat Kumar taught me otherwise. Barat Kumar is from a southern most part of India, Tiruchy, Tamil Nadu. He is sixteen. He came to work in Nashik to feed his family members, more so to find a temporary heaven from his step-mother's tortures. He is kept in the juvenile home for the thing he says he didn't commit. Almost all  the minors who land up in the juvenile home say the same thing but their attitude towards life is one of fatalism; however this boy proved to be different. He learnt the language in less than ten days and began to move with the inmates. He has not taken to drugs as most of the adolescents do it by all means. He keeps writing something. He thought me a big lesson for life: Experience is not that which happens to you but what you do with that which happens to you. One of the ways of finding meaning in life is to foster a healthy attitude according to Victor Frankl, the proponent of  logotheraphy. Barat Kumar awaits his step mother - as he had lost his mother long back - and his busy father to rescue him from the juvenile home.  

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aneeshsdb said…
i liked it very much confrere....Experience is what you do with what happens to you..... true... Great Bharat of Sixteen....Meaning in life????very good my favourite topic.... Viktor frankl.... all the more inspiring for me...keep writing...
February 12, 2012 at 2:26 AM
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