This story starts with a little girl, Jiminah playing by herself in front of her house. She lived with her farmer father in the outskirts of the city. An old philosopher, Jinn happened to pass by her house. He wondered how brightness he felt reaching Jiminah’s house. He decided to test and confirm on the girl’s positiveness.
“Little girl!”, he said approaching Jiminah. “Do you stay here?”
“Yes grandpa!”, the girl replied politely.
“Can I ask you to do a task?”, as the philosopher asked, the girl looked calm even though he was a stranger.
“Will you do the task for me?”, he repeated.
“If it can be done by me, I will surely do it grandpa”, Jiminah agreed.
“I want you to fill an entire room in your house, with any substance you like the most” he continued, “Remember, the whole room must be filled with the substance.”
The philosopher sat to work on his laptop there under a tree until Jiminah’s father returned home. Looking at the philosopher Jiminah’s father with hospitality asked him to join him for dinner.
As Jiminah’s father opened the door of his house, both of them could feel a sense of freshness. The day’s tiredness felt diminishing with the freshness of the fragrance.
Jiminah’s father called out for her, “Jiminah!”.
As she came out of kitchen, “Appa, you are back?”, she came running and hugged his feet.
Looking towards the philosopher Jiminah continued,”Grandpa, I filled our whole house with the fragrance”.
With a smile on his face, the philosopher understood that the fragrance was not of any incense stick but of delicious dishes. Working all day and then been recieved in with a smile of kindness, been treated humanely is the fragrance of being human.
As for a popular boy band has said -“Some people may hate you for being different and not living by society’s standards, but deep down they wish they had the courage to do the same”.
“Your presence can give happiness”.