30 May 2026
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In a small town, there was a wooden bench beneath an old tree.
Nothing remarkable ever happened there.
No famous speeches were delivered. No important decisions were recorded. No tourist ever photographed it.
Yet every day, people came.
An elderly man rested there after his morning walk. A schoolboy tied his shoelaces before class. A woman carrying groceries paused for a few minutes on her way home.
The bench never asked who they were.
It simply offered a place to stop.
In a world that celebrates movement, perhaps we underestimate the value of things that allow us to pause.
Not every contribution changes history.
Some contributions make ordinary days a little easier.
And perhaps that is enough
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
Email: rajatchandrasarmah@gmail.com
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