That first drop of life!!!

 

He looked at his father and hugged him warmly. The long summer night passed away imperceptibly. The clock stuck at four o'clock in the morning before father cleaned up the barn. "Supper time!" passed my mother's instruction to my father as a messenger. He nodded with a fainting smile and continued his daily chores. 

I ate with a good appetite, but my father sat absently looking at an empty plate. In a blink of an eye, my mother appeared with one bowl of cornflakes and a jar filled with milk. The mother signaled me through her big eyes vacant the room immediately. However, the conversation became more animated, and both took part in it.

'And, how will we survive, John?' asked mother

'I lost everything. I must confess that I am an unfortunate one: I tried my best to save these crops, I want to stay calm, but now I am losing my faith,' vocalized father pessimistically.

'And you did not once allow yourself to ask for a helping hand?... Your firmness astonishes me,' mother softly gripped his hand.

I got teary-eyed after the involuntary participation in their secretive conversation. It was an irresistible urge to search for my answers.  So, I just bolted down a glass of water and reached amid cropland. I looked at the sky for a moment and asked that supreme power residing above the clouds- 'Why?'

Suddenly, I felt something on my left cheek. I saw my father standing motionless with a gaze riveted towards the sky and his face the picture of a flabbergast. He tried to speak to the mother, but no sound would come at first. 

 'John, my love, mother called to him. But he was standing like a statue. Then she rose and tottered towards him. She panted once more, clutching his arm; God heard our prayers.'

He gently loosened her fingers from about his arm and was weeping for joy. He showed a water droplet that was shining bright like a diamond. 

He broke down and screamed his lungs out 'that first drop of life.'

The Void

 

The other day, I was sitting on a veranda and wrote some text for a website. A big mug of green tea stood on a footstool and figuring out the universal question, "What to choose between my family or oneself as an individual?" I looked at the green colour of the tea and inhaled a deep breath.

She's always had anything in the world she wanted, and when she disobeyed her parents. The alarming sound of the society rang in her ear now and then. She felt abandoned. "But what I did? The audacity to knew me. Is it a sin to know who you are?" It rages fire in her heart.

In the good old days, when she performed as a lead dancer in the school function. Her parents got tear-eyed. She felt something change in her. The thirst to attain her passion went endlessly. But her world turned upside down in that one moment. When her mother blows her top and said: "I'm thoroughly ashamed of you." Her heart spoke, "But of course she wasn't. She had a conversation with her mother's soul while sealing her mouth; I wish you could see it. She replied rigorously, Why Mommy, Samaria adopted, I can prove it."

After having my last sip of green tea, I thought, "Can I escape into this natural world of greenery to forget my miseries. But what about this real world? Does this void will ever end? Then I recapitulated the entire life in front of me. And I found my answers in front of me. It was crystal clear that how my parents perceived life, the way they lived it. And now one can't change it. But to fill this void, "You accept, perceive, and work to make it better because, without suffering, there is no winning."

It's found out! Earth is actually Flat.

 

Children rushed for the school. It was eight 'o clock in the morning. There was no sun or promise of sun, and there was not a single cloud in the sky. It was a clear day. Like another ordinary day, the school bell rang. Preeti ran and put her hand on the shoulder of Prateek. He turned around and looked at her. She was blooming like a flower.

"You got Idli-vada for lunch today", and he extended his arm towards the left of her shoulder. She looked at him disappointingly and said to him in a subdued voice: "You forgot". Then, shaking off her torpor, she added: "Today is our Intraclass drawing competition.

Prateek was astounded. He banged his head and said to her: "I completely forgot". He pleaded with her to share her stationary with him. She nodded with a pleasing smile.

The competition started at twelve 'o clock sharp. Preeti had butterflies in her stomach. The class teacher entered and wrote down this one word with the chalk - "Earth". Preeti and Prateek looked at each other and smiled.

The bell rang at one o'clock straight. Teachers collected the drawing sheet from each child. Preeti handed down her sheet with an alluring smile. Both eagerly waited for the result. 

The class teacher set foot in the class and shared a mischievous looked with Preeti.  She announced the result in a fraction of seconds. But when it comes to telling the name of the winner. She smiled to herself and showed the drawing to the class. Preeti felt out like a light. In the drawing sheet, the earth was half divided, and a girl was looking at it. And children were playing on that flat surface. The teacher announced, "It found out! Earth is actually flat".