Last week, the nation was shocked when a young tennis star was shot dead by her father pumping four bullets into her back while she was in the kitchen preparing food- most probably for him as her mother was indisposed.

His justification was that people in the village were mocking him for living off his daughter and she refused to listen to him on closing down the tennis academy. Whatever be the reason, the fact remains that in our country we give a lot of importance to ” Log kya Kehange?”

The ‘log’ here can encompass people ranging from the ubiquitous relatives, neighbours, friends and to passers-by.

I remember another story that I often shared in my class. The story goes:

A farmer came into town and asked the owner of a restaurant if he could use a million frog legs. The restaurant owner was shocked and asked the man where he could get so many frog legs! The farmer replied, ‘There is a pond near my house that is full of frogs – millions of them. They all croak all night long and they are about to make me crazy!’ So the restaurant owner and the farmer made an agreement that the farmer would deliver frogs to the restaurant, five hundred at a time for the next several weeks

The first week, the farmer returned to the restaurant looking rather sheepish, with two scrawny little frogs. The restaurant owner said, ‘Well… where are all the frogs?’ The farmer said, ‘I was mistaken. There were only these two frogs in the pond.  But they sure were making a lot of noise!

Next time you hear somebody criticizing or making fun of you, remember, it’s probably just a couple of noisy frogs. Also remember that problems always seem bigger in the dark. Have you ever laid in your bed at night worrying about things which seem almost overwhelming like a million frogs croaking? Chances are pretty good that when the morning comes, and you take a closer look, you’ll wonder what all the fuss was about.

A video of Sandeep Maheshwari too made a great impact during the sessions on soft skills.

Do watch this video for better understanding.

If only the father of the young girl who lost her life had remembered the famous song of Kishore Kumar set to the music of R D Burman and picturized on Rajesh Khanna, Kuch toh log Kahenge, Logon ka kaam hai Kehana, she might have made him proud and more importantly- lived and loved.

This blog post is part of ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’
hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla.