The endless journey to India finally drew to a close at 9:30 pm. It's not every day that children travel without their parents. Vidhi Shah was embracing this journey with a tingling sense of excitement. What added to the enlivening feeling was the thought of meeting her loving grandmother whom she adored. However, she was oblivious of the shock she was going to face in the twinkling of an eye.
On the 20th June 2014 at 9:30 pm( IST), an unaccompanied minor, Vidhi Shah arrived at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai to find that her checked in luggage got misplaced after waiting for over 30 minutes. She clutched her hand luggage and scurried towards the customer service counter. In exasperation, she approached a ground staff member and demanded where her suitcases were. “ It's brown in colour and has a Singapore Airlines PPS Club Member Tag,Vidhi declared.” To her luck , another porter standing nearby revealed that he recently saw a man with a virtually ill daughter who had a suitcase similar to the description given. He recalled that the man’s name was Amit and eventually realised that he could have taken the suitcase accidently. In a flash, the ground personnel entered the name into the search engine and called up the local indian number provided. Sure enough, it turned out that he was the guilty man who happened to unintentionally claim Vidhi Shah’s suitcase. Finally he turned back from his journey towards his home and headed back towards the airport to return the luggage. In the end, Vidhi Shah was handed over her luggage and she set out in the direction of where her relatives were with a glowing smile.Vidhi’s aunt, Hetal Khona mentioned that , “ Also this was chaotic incident, Vidhi learnt to become patient when facing such situations.” This incident displayed that patience is a significant life skill to comprehend. Eventually, her long anxiously awaited India sojourn began.
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