Veer was getting ready for his 15 hour shift at the Government Counseling Center.It was Wednesday and he knew how bustling his office room would be.Patients with such burdening problems will be sitting impatiently in the waiting room,counting every second of their waiting time.They always thought that Veer is obliged to them,like their sibling or a family member.He owes all his precious seconds and minutes to them.For talking to them,hearing out their deepest anguish,trying to build a bridge between their hearts and minds.To teach them how to give equal weight-age to both the heart and the mind.So they all needed Veer,like a savior,to make them overcome their impulses.
When Veer entered,his patients face brightened like the sun's rays during dawn,beaming with a lot of hope,that,for a moment,all their mountainous problems became molehills.Thus it began...the hardworking day for Veer,as his office boy started sending one patient after the other inside his room.So they began talking,crying,yelling,whining,laughing hysterically,also sometimes slapping Veer to vent out their unbearable frustration.When Veer was physically attacked by a patient,he would not move,not react,not get angry,but,will maintain his highest composure and smile,and that was his magic medicine or cure that has worked for the past 18 years of practice.
"So many emotions...so little time",thought Veer.But he managed to pull it off effortlessly,just like he did all these years,and this "effortless toiling" has drawn him several awards and accolades.
"We are done for the day doctor...Anything else you want me to help you with?" asked the office boy.Veer nodded his head implying 'NO,I must go home,I have another half-a-day's work there,WITH MANY EMOTIONS AGAIN'.
Veer's wife was whining from the moment she heard his car touching the home's boundary.Then while entering the house,came his mother complaining and crying,showing both emotions from time to time.And when he sat to eat dinner,his son and daughter were angry and shouting.And finally when he sat to watch television,came his brother with nervousness...disappointed and dejected about something.So regaining his highest composure,"Here it comes!!!",thought Veer,he sat down in his living room lending ears to their talking,crying,whining and shouting and finally comforting/counseling each one of them.
"So many emotions....so little time",thought Veer again.Only this time putting up a faint grin and looking proudly at the Highest Award given to him for working with emotions.
It was in the after-awards ceremony,that when his friend asked him the question,when the answer from Veer was expected to be elaborate,he surprised everyone by just saying those four words.Veer gracefully accepted the highest award presented by the "Society of Experimental Social Psychology".The question was posed by his best friend,in front of Veer's family,his mother,wife,brother and two teenage brats called children.
"Congrats Veer!How do you possibly handle these emotionally disturbed maniacs everyday?Your patients are not mentally challenged,they are perfectly normal people with a lot of emotions evolving from their problems....those problems can be stupid,silly or serious.But how do you pull it off so well???"
Veer replied as quick as a wink,"It starts at home"....
