Apathy to Sympathy

Mohit is a scatterbrained. Yeah, that's the unusual word everyone finds to best describe his unusual nature. His frivolity makes him desolate. But truly speaking, he is not so dull as you might first imagine.

His carelessness surely has some benefits. He is not self-indulgent or abstemious at all. He thinks more about others and about the world around him than he does about himself. Thus, he is conscious and aware about all the problems his intimates face and doesn't rest until he helps them out. His altruism therefore makes him a great friend. In return, he always gets eager help whenever he is in trouble.

Negligence to his self-care makes his appearance rather bleak. You would often find him with a pimpled face and long untidy hairs akin to a bird's nest, wearing a pale green T-shirt and a discolored black pant, ambling through the streets with hands inside his pockets, and remaining cautious enough to spot anyone's anguish. Certainly he is not absent minded but only a little inconsistent with his personal well-being.

He loves spending most of his time in his spacious room. The only thing that he is often indulgent upon is physics. Physics is his favorite subject. Casually, he challenges himself to endure through the hard laws of physics and math. Understanding the laws of universe has made him a true aesthetic.

His room contains a wide variety of stuffs. Here is a brief description of the ambience of his amiable room. He has a comfortable bed at one corner of his room and a table lamp just beside it. The walls of his room are plastered with pictures, all of which reflects his appreciation of natural beauty. The amenity of his room is the large study table, one quarter of which is piled with books, one quarter occupied by a bulky - antique CRT monitor and the other half of which is free space for studying. Beside his study table is a little extension which is full of school accessories and heaped with unneeded files. One - hand distance beside the extension is a bookshelf with two drawers at the bottom. Adjacent to the bookshelf is the door to his room. The bookshelf hinders the view of anyone peering at his table from the door.

One paraphernalia in his room that is somewhat anomalous to his character is the long mirror just opposite to the bookshelf. You might definitely wonder what a boy so careless about self appearance has to do with such a big mirror? Well, the mirror was obviously not installed due to his insistence, it was fixed there even before his family came to this house.

Mohit's mother is very strict and insecure about his activities. She always pampers or disapproves him whenever he wishes to do anything apart from his fixed chores. She is also very much disciplined about Mohit's studies. As such, she always keeps her eyes on Mohit which would not have been possible without his knowledge if not the mirror had been placed on that very correct position.

Every now and then, his mother would come to his door and look into the mirror from there. The appropriate angle between his study table, the mirror and the door would create a perfect reflection, which his mother would glance at and decide when she had to catch the unprovoked Mohit red-handed doing something not permitted. Occasionally, she would approach Mohit and stand akimbo with her stern eyes, scolding him for reading comics instead of studying biology, while the baffled Mohit could still not figure out where she appeared from. Mohit did not like being watched all the time. He too wanted to have some personal time alone. Soon the mirror became Mohit's item of great repugnance.

He tried to annihilate the mirror. Not only once but twice his attempt went vain. In the second time, he kicked his football at it and it made such a loud awkward sound that his mother having understood what he was trying to do, flew to his room and spanked him a lot. Mohit's dismal regarding this matter always made him avoid looking into the mirror.

Now let's put the mirror matter aside and get back to Mohit's funny silliness. His characteristics does have some disadvantages too. Once it was the night before his English test. He had been awake very late at night reading, writing essays and articles. At morning he woke up just thirty minutes before school. He was in such a frustrating situation that he packed his accessories in a hurry for catching the last bus. When he started writing his essay during the exam, he was agonized to find out that the ink of his pen had finished. What added to his agony was that he had not brought any other pen! He would have died in distress if his best friend would not have lent him his extra pen.

In another occasion, he would have truly regretted for his idiosyncrasies. It was a very important board examination at the end of the year. This time he had packed all his necessary accessories properly the night before the exam. In the morning he woke up early and got himself tidy and ready on time. The moment he was about to leave the house, his mother shouted that he had forgotten to wear his tie. Mohit rushed to his room, grabbed the tie from the hanger and went in front of the mirror. Just when he finished tying his tie, his eyes caught the reflection of a piece of paper placed on a side of the bookshelf.

OMG! That was his admit card, without which he wouldn't be allowed to enter the examination hall. He was almost leaving the house assuming that he had taken all his essential things but he had totally forgotten his admit card. At the last moment his disliked mirror had shown him this very important piece of paper and saved him from extreme regression.

From then onwards, Mohit's apathy for the mirror turned into sympathy. Now he always glances into the mirror before leaving the house just to get himself reminded of things he might be forgetting. His personality has changed too and now he began to care for his look as well as care for all those things he detested just in case they come in help for something someday.