Every time Navneeth passed through that Eye hospital, he thinks of enquiring about pledging eyes for donation. One fine day he stopped by and entered the hospital. He asked the security guard at the gate, “How to go to the Eye bank?” the security guard gleefully guided him to the front office. There was mid-aged lady in the reception. He walked to the desk and asked, “What is the procedure pledge one’s eye?” She confirmed whether he is a major and asked him to take the seat. He could feel that he was treated with great respect just for that simple question. She searched for couple of drawers in the table and pulled out a yellow colored form and explained how to fill them.
He came back home and read the details carefully and filled in the form and the next day he dropped the form at the eye bank. He filled his mother’s name and contact number under the details of the kin who will fulfill his wish after his demise.
There were lots of thoughts wavering in his mind on how his parents will react to his interest. After some deep pondering he decided to meet them in person and tell them about his wish.
One fine week end he visited Jaipur, his home town. He along with his parents was watching KBC. He casually struck a conversation about eye donation. His parents being very orthodox responded positively, which surprised him. With out stopping his conversion he said to his parents that he had pledged to donate his eye after his demise and want them to fulfill his wish. There was sudden silence in the drawing room with only Big B reciting the question to the contestant to be heard.
After few seconds of silence she said to him that she was happy about his decision.
His father listening to this whole conversation smiled at him and gave a pat on his back and started reading the newspaper. He could see his mother looking at him which said “I am proud of you son” and tears well in her eyes. Navneeth pretended as if he had not noticed it and kept watching the TV though none of the questions from AB went in to his mind....
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