He was a quiet guy...

its a true story.
its not my story.
i was a witness to this story.
Samay ,that is his name.They called him Silent Sam.
He was what you would call a quiet guy , quite a quiet guy , a quite quiet guy....
whichever way one may put it.
Silent Sam would be silent in the classes and out of the classes.He was silent when he was with friends and when he was without friends.He was silent at school and he was silentat home.
So silent that people took him to be dumb.
Dumb....he wasn't....in any possible connotation of the word.
When he was younger , he was a bit hesitant... a bit shy...as a result a bit quiet.
When he was growing up people began to perceive him to be a person who would have nothing to say,he went along with this perception.

He was smart and intelligent.He would not be the one to tom tom about it.Those who grew to be close to him and came to know him well knew that he had a voice , he had the words and he had the wits to employ those words as when needed.

Those who did not know him well persisted in calling him Silent Sam.
Those who did not know much persisted in believing him dumb.
One of his teachers led the thought..
She railed and ranted against him.
When she couldn't do that ,then she would scold him.
When she couldn't scold him ,she would make fun of him.
She was nasty to him when there was a reason ,when there wasn't a reason then she was nastier.
Never once did he react.
True to his name ,he was silent.
One fine day , for reasons best known to her ,she proposed his name ...to speak in public.
Suddenly .Without a moments notice.
His friends felt bad.They knew that he would not be able to say a word.They saw that he will be publicly humiliated.
Will he ever recover?
The hall was as silent as a tomb.
He had been so sweet and sensitive all his life that he had many friends and others who wished him well.
Then he spoke.Spoke ,he did.
So well ...so wonderfully well.
His voice was a deep baritone .The audience was spellbound.
One word ...it took just one word to challenge his self respect.....to ignite all that was within him. And it took just one word to shed his shyness forever.
Sam spoke and all were silent.
As i said earlier ,he was a quite a guy!!
Or did i say ...he was a quiet guy!!
The heart of the matter is that courage speaks....always.