A Tribute to an angel

 As I entered the gate of  the kanthari international institute for social antrepreneures whee I was working, I suddenly heard a innocent laugh!  I could also detect the voices of few of my friends merily sitting on the balcony,  talking the the owner of this inocent laugh. I knew we were recieving an international volunteer, a friend of my  friend/colleague  whom he had  made his acquaintance with during his visit to  Europe.

  I knew she was  arriving  that day,  but I thought to my  self, as I approached the balcony, could this be her?

  and to my excitement, It was her!

 Maria Dimmytrova! the young dazzling Bulgarian Medicine student, who had come all the way to Kerala, to volunteer with my project exclusively, which was then a mobile blind school attached to the  international organization kanthari.

  I went closer to her and held her hands in mine, I felt a kind of  positive energy  as soon as I touched her, and we instantly bonded.

  She loved water, and loved to be in mother nature!

 She loved people, and always loved  to give them positive energy. She could do that in a Jiffy. She would come  behind you, and Massage your shoulders,  whispering  to you, " it will be okay". She  would sense when you are sad, and come and hug you from behind, or do something as daring as lift you up in to her arms legs first!

  she  loved walking and we used to walk a lot,. I taught her to guide blind people.

   she used to say,  take more positive energy from the earth, from the air, the wind. When it used to rain, she would come and  dance in the rain, get wet, and wet us all in the process. when we went to the sea, she would ensure we all went in to the water.

  I who was always worried about keeping appearances, with regards to my cloths,  would be scared to go in water, but she would pull me in, clothes and all.

  her way of saying ok, and thank you were  so  innocent. She was a lover of  our Indian suphi Music,  meditation Music, and Yoga.   She visited me  again when my organization was  formed independently. She would never shy away from the household work, and was part of our community living setup, in our hostel for blind youths. She  would  need doe with  the   students for chapatis. One day,  she   burnt one of our vessels, while cooking and when she saw our house mother, she would  playfully say,  "don't worry, I will buy you another one, and she would go and hug her, and our house mother, who is also  my adopted mother, would hug her back and laugh.  She would lie in the mud, bring potted plants, show us about  gardening, dance with all of us, treat us all alike, and give us the same kind of energy.  "Take the Wellington air with you" she said, on our trip to a hill station called wellington in Tamilnadu, as the air was so clean and  mother nature kind of called to you in a hill station! She would  say, that every one is good, they just need a bit of positive energy, and good words, and a loving touch. she would tell me to relax, when I was over worked, she would say, Loosen up! Just loosen up!

   She is no longer here now, but I would like many women to be encouraged by her free spirit, who only knew to love, to be happy for little things, even  for the climate, her material needs were Nil, she was happy to live on what mother nature gave her, and to  give encouragement to others.  On her birthday, I pay this tribute to her, the angel, the  dazzling  personality