Good self-esteem is important because it helps you to hold your head high and feel proud of yourself and what you can do.
My previous post spoke about learning a new
language. This feature of self-esteem was a trait Mriga surely possessed, she
knew and had the knack of learning many languages. Mriga initially claimed to
know 6 or more languages. Like I was saying, self- esteem builds confidence and
it gives you the courage to try new things. Also, the power to believe in
yourself.
Of course, Mriga successfully learned the language
or rather, to be precise, learned good enough to manage a friend or two.
They would laugh their heart out to understand what actually Mriga meant.
Osam and Munu both became close to her and they too started interacting in English.
They would meet every evening at their known, not so strange tea stall near
their coaching center. Mriga made sure she would keep them entertained by
her funny learning accent throughout her speech.
Mriga loved to fascinate and make her own stories about her house. She
would sometimes behave like the character of Pippi Longstocking who loved to
build up stories on her own.
Mriga was not the same but not that different either. Amongst her
favourite tale was about her food. She would have simple dal, bhaat, and chips
and claim to have mangsho pulav- or so-called a feast. Sometimes she would also
imagine being a poetess of high intellect. Many a times it would be sensible
with good philosophical values, though that was rare.
One such evening, Mriga on her usual walk started a conversation, she
found it difficult to say the correct word for an insect in particular. So she
starts explaining this way, “they have a long long thread-like things above their
head and they are very chee chee, they do not know where they are walking, they
tend to run fast.”
Mriga finally gives up and speaks in English that there are 4600 species
out of which 30 are related to human habitat.
Guess what? Do leave your answers in the comment box.
Till then, বিদায় (biḍai).
