All Chapters of Striding Spirits: Chapter 71 - Chapter 72

Time has its learning and it teaches whenever one tires to gain from it.Vicky was very fond of swimming. He was often found punishing by his parents for this fondness. But he never quit.It was really hard to believe that at the age of twenty or so, Vicky was just standing on the embankment of the bridge, nearly in the middle, just making up his mind before jumping into the flowing canal near the river. It was almost fifteen feet high to jump into the full, brimming canal in the month of June in summer. All the boys were boosting and watching him to use his curiosity, as he was not jumping. They were shouting! But in the spur of the moment, he closed his eyes, and drew a deep breath, and leapt  at once — hearing only the sharp rustling of air as he dropped from the high slab, plunging into the icy current of water beneath the bridge. The water was sheer and cold. The water was bitterly cold, fed by the snow-capped peaks of northern areas near the border of the country. The instan