"Ma'am, you can take my seat."
But the pregnant lady remained silent and just look at the dirty boy. The boy then slowly put down the woven bag that he is carrying upon seeing her reaction. The boy started to wipe off the sit a tissue that he got on his pocket. He said to the woman while smiling from ear to ear,
"Ma'am, I have wiped the seat clean, there is no more dirt left."
All of the people who also in the bus was glancing at their scene. The pregnant woman's face turned red because of her embarrassment. She slowly sat on the seat while keeping her head down. The bus driver, however, suddenly put on the brakes when the young boy was picking up the woven bag. The young boy still held onto the bag even though he was nearly fell down. An old lady who was sitting beside the boy admired him:
"You are a good boy."
The boy then said to the old lady while smiling shyly.
"Ma'am, I am not really a good boy. My mother always criticized me that I cared too much about what others thought of me. But now I am brave, just like Forrest Gump."
The mother of the boy, however, was working as a teacher in their community. His mother allowed him to watch the inspirational movie, Forrest Gump once. He then has a lesson that learned from the said movie and that is he needs to be brave to create his own path and don't mind what others are thinking about him.
The old lady asked him again,
"Where is your mother?"
The young boy answered the old woman while he becomes emotional, "My mother is inside the bag."The old woman was surprised by what she heard and the people who are on the bus beginning to feel confused. And the man who was with him and stood up near him all the time finally spoke up and stated,
"I am his uncle. His father p4ss3d away a few years ago because of sickness, and his mother had from then on been raising him on her own. She was a teacher in our village and was well respected by the local people." The man also stated that the young boy's mother decided to work as a construction worker in the city while it was still a school summer vacation in order for her to give a better life for his son, and she always brings her son to her work.
The boy and his mother then decided to come back to their village because the new school year was about to begin. Unfortunately, the mother was stricken by a massive steel bar and passed away on the last day of her work. Her ashes were put in a jar that was placed in the woven bag. The old woman then asked again while she can't hold her tears anymore because of what she heard,
"Will the boy continue with his studies?"
The man then shakes his head that indicates a 'no.' However, the boy answered her,
"I will read books in the bookshop near the construction site every day."
Many people who were inside the bus was amazed and touched by the situation of the boy and many of them offer him that they willingly gave their books to the young boy.
"Stop caring what others think of you, be brave to make your own path."
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