Near death experience with discovery of Ethan Hunt - Mission impossible: True story from our childhood
Kids grew up to teens and their father retired. None in the
family wanted to go to ancestral village as life was easier in the cities than in
hilly villages. So, following the trend, father also decided to move family to
city named Haldwani in foothills.
They moved to the city in a rented accommodation. Pappu
started preparing for medical, Sanju for engineering and Bholu took admission in
11th class in Bhanbhulpura Inter college. Bholu’s school was 5 kilo
meters far from their home. It was not common in city in plains that student
walk to school for 5 kilo meters. Bholu took rikshaw for few days. Everyone
else was going to school using a bicycle; they though bicycle would be faster and
save some money. They bought a one new Hero bicycle for Bholu.
Kids grew up in hills, so they didn’t know how to ride a
bicycle. They started learning bicycle. It wasn’t easy. Sanju being elder
learned faster than Bholu. After few days he boasted to Bholu that he has
learned bicycle and he will drop him to school. After few trials in front of
their house Sanju was quite confident. He can now take Bholu along in the
bicycle.
It was a morning of August. It wasn’t raining but it seemed
it rained last night. With a folded umbrella in his hand and bag on his back, Bholu
sat on the top tube and Sanju rode bicycle.
Slowly they were heading towards school.
Joy of riding a bicycle for the first time wasn’t a small
thing for them. Both of them were very happy and beaming.
There was a canal running along main road on the left side.
They had almost reached. After few hundred meters there was a minimal bridge on
canal to join the small sub lane. School was barely half a kilo meter on the sub
lane.
Sanju turned the bicycle handle with a jerk toward left. Sanju
fell on the road and Bholu was thrown away in the canal, luckily his hands
holding the bridge. This was a scene right from Mission Impossible movie,
everything happened with blink of the eye.
Few people came running, they pulled Bholu out from canal.
His clothes were drenched in mud. One of his classmates also
came out from crowd and helped him to come back to senses. Everything was there
except the umbrella which swept away with water in canal.
Along with his classmate, Bholu went to school on foot and
Sanju rode bicycle back to home.
Sanju could not muster courage to tell all that happened to
anyone. When Bholu came back from school, Sanju asked him not to tell anyone. Sanju
was not only scared to death but also ashamed.
After looking at Bholu clothes Mother and Father both got
suspicious. They asked but Bholu maintained complete secrecy.
In the evening, Bholu and Father went to market for
shopping. Bholu’s class fellow who was also in market came from the front and
asked Bholu “did you get the umbrella?”
Father understood that Bholu was hiding something from him.
He though that Bholu might have had a brawl with someone in school. After
coming home, Father told Bholu that if he didn’t tell him, father will go to
school next day and ask class teacher. Bholu spilled the beans. As usual there
was small scolding from parents.
Sanju was conscience-stricken. He lived with the guilt until
he saw the movie Mission Impossible and realized that his brother is no less
than Ethan Hunt.
They are now grown up. Sanju sometimes feels that Mission Impossible
is inspired by their incident.
Post script ->
Mere Aaj Main Mera Bachpan.
True story from our childhood: Near death experience with
discovery of Ethan Hunt - Mission impossible
True children’s stories.
Migration stories.
Migrants.
Near death experience.
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