25 years of life flew by like the wind by attending class.Then the job search started. Not this, not far, not near. While doing this, one was fixed after leaving two or three jobs. A little stability ensured.After some time the selection was done in a MNC.
Then came the first salary check. Monthly salary deposited in the bank and began the endless game of zeros in the account. 2- 3 more years passed. A few more zeros increased in the bank.Age turned 28 and then got married. Real story of life started. The first two years were soft, pink, juicy, dreamy. Walking hand in hand, colorful dreams. But these days soon flew by.
And then there was a sound as soon as the child came. Throughout the year the crib began to swing. Now all the attention is focused on the child. Get up, sit down, eat and drink.How the time passed so quickly, I did not know.In the meantime, when my hand got out of his hand, when the conversation stopped talking, both of them did not know.
The child grew up. She got busy with the child, I with my work,tour, travels, meetings, Concerns about home and car installment, child's responsibility, education and future convenience as well as increasing zero in the bank. I too threw myself completely into the work and so did I continuesly.
By that time I turned 35. There is zero in the house, car, bank, family, yet there is something missing? But what is it I did not understand. My irritability increased, I began to become indifferent. Meanwhile the days passed. Time passed. The child grew up. His own world was ready.
Didn't even know the time. By then both of us were forty-two. Zero kept increasing in the bank.
In a very lonely moment, I remembered those days and seeing the opportunity said to her, "Hey, come here, sit by."Let's go hand in hand and roam somewhere."
She looked at me with a strange look and said that "do you understand anything, there is a lot of work here, you are understanding of things."She left with a pallu in her waist. Then came the forty-five year, the eyes got spectacles, the hair started leaving black color, some confusion started in the mind. The son was in college there, zeroes were rising in the bank here.Soon his college ended. He stood on his feet. Its wings broke and flew away.
The black color of her hair also started flying. Sometimes the mind started to remain absent. She also got glasses. I got old myself. She also started looking old. Both started growing from fifty-five to sixty. No news of bank zeros. Outbound programs began to stop.
Now the days and times of pill medicines have been fixed. When the children grow up, then we will live together thinking that the house taken now starts feeling like a burden. The rest of the days began to pass thinking about when the children would come back.
One day I was sitting on the sofa enjoying the cool air. She was talking about some memories. Then the phone rang. I grabbed and picked up the phone. On the other side was the son. The one who said that he got married and will now live in foreign land for ever. He also said that father, give the zeros of your bank to some old age home. And you stay the same. After saying some more formal things, the son hung up the phone.I sat down on the sofa again.
Even the wick had come to an end. I called her "Let's talk again today hand in hand". She immediately said "just came". I didn't believe it. My face lit up with happiness. Eyes filled. Tears started falling from the eyes and cheeks were wet. Suddenly the gleam in my eyes faded and I became lethargic. forever !!Felt like collapsed.
She did the rest of the puja and came and sat beside me "Say what were you talking about? "But I didn't say anything. She touched my body and saw, the body had gone completely cold. I was looking at her with a steadyness . She became a big zero in a moment. What to do ?
She didn't understand anything. But within a couple of minutes she became unconscious for a while.
She got up slowly and went to the house with an incense stick. Praised God. And came again and sat down on the sofa.Took my cold hand in her hands and said."Where do you want to go for a walk? What do you want to talk about?" Say !! Tell me.
Her eyes were filled with tears while saying this. She kept staring at me. Tears streamed from her eyes. My head fell on her shoulder. A gust of cold wind was still blowing.
Is this life??????
Everyone brings their luck with them, so take some time out for yourself too.
Life is yours, so keep the way of living yours too. Get started from today.
Because tomorrow will never come,,
Based on a true incident.
Thank you.
