It was a gloomy evening. Everything seemed to carry a tinge of sadness, man and animals alike. Coincidently it was year end too. Saket was trying his best to keep his spirits high. Past 3 years he had spend his 31st dec travelling due to one reason or the other. How much he craved that time to have a travel less 31st dec and how much he was regretting it today. It had been barely 6 motnhs in the job and so the cribbing part wasn’t over yet. In fact the reasons to crib were increasing day by day.
It was around six when someone called. The moment he heard hello, he knew it was ankur on the other side. So long it had been. This was good enough of a reason to smile. At once a plan was made and the evening was set. He had got a companion to crib with. So they met in a mall, far from their places so that there would be no reason to visit each others place. This place seemed as if it had been gift wrapped, with a promise of something good inside. And everyone was afraid to initiate the unwrapping part with the fear of getting acquainted with reality. And so everyone seemed contented.
They started roaming around watching human robots with every expression that was synonym of happiness, on their faces. He at once knew the secret as he bore the same expression. After endless discussion about who was being treated worst by his employer, they decided to have snacks as no one was feeling hungry, and none of both wanted to celebrate the beginning of year.
While holding a burger in his one hand and a can in other saket moved out and was waiting for ankur to come. Standing few steps above the ground he took the first bite and at once knew that it was horrible. It seemed that all the frustration of whole year was finding a reason to get out and it had a genuine one now. He at once flung the burger towards garbage can. It didn’t go into can but landed just outside. Suddenly 2 living soul rushed towards it. A child in ragged clothes and a dog. The similarity was in the expression of hunger. Unwrapping was over, though unintentional and he knew why everyone refrained from it.
6 comments:
nice story and nice narration, who was ankur btw; yella ???
I liked the ending, somehow, I myself feel lonely on "big days" because mostly I am away from my frens.
So when we meet that day will be new and worth rejoicing for me!!
It was satya btw
i like it....sometimes being with friends on such days also dont help much..
good job...keep writing to hone ur skills :)
I think this feeling of frustration keeps coming to almost everyone in this phase of life...and what i hv personally learned is that it is more like making a mountain out of a molehill...the issue seems as big as the thought u put into it.
beautifully written...nice post.
Those last few lines say a lot of what is not written. A perfect concise verbiage.
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