By Mohiuddin
People who live in a society have intimacy with neighbors and with other relatives. Some friendships are much stronger than others. Visiting each other’s house and gathering in our grandparents' house makes the relationship between ourselves closer. My sisters and other relatives visit our house in the winter session when their children complete the yearly examination. I am lucky that I have nephews and nieces with other relatives. Oli and Osama are two of them. There is a concrete like friendship between them even though they live in different cities. Though sometimes they fight with each other, they reconcile the conflict with each other quickly. They have had their own talents and creativity since their childhoods.
One day, the two boys made a plan to take a journey without informing anyone; their parents, uncle or their siblings. At that time, my sisters had gathered in our house. They did it five years ago at a time when they were not in school. One afternoon they decided to visit one of their house and bring a football. It was a remote area and the communication system was poor. Therefore, they started walking to their destination, about five kilometers, on foot. As the main road was quite far they decided to take a short cut through an agricultural field. At this time, we thought that they were playing with other boys in the fields. But our assumption proved to be false when all the boys came back at noon without the two boys.
We were scared and started to think about what we should we do. Unlike urban areas, villagers have had limited such experience. A happy moment turned into a deep worry. We started to search here and there and asked people about my nephews. Some people said that they went in a certain direction. I went through the path and started to ask people and shouted out by calling their name. After I had gone about two kilometers I still didn’t have any ideas and the whole situation seemed so random and scary. Darkness had almost arrived and I asked myself “Should I go back or go forward?”. After a brief moment of indecision, I decided to continue my search and after a few minutes I reached the junction of the substation road, I ran across my brother. He told me the news “they had returned home by a rickshaw, they persuaded the rickshaw puller to go with them”. Now I asked myself the question “How did they get the idea to hire a rickshaw being so young and having no money?”