Hi buddy! How are you doing?
I may not be able to hear your reply but I'm damn sure that you're doing great. My name is Monu. I'm delighted that you have taken few precious minutes of your time to read through this article of mine. I don’t believe in telling you a fairy tale written by someone and narrated by someone else. I want to share a small experience of mine with you. Hence I will be talking directly to you. I hope you are fine with it. Say "YES" {I can't forget my nursery habit of saying "YES" once we became friendsJ}.
I may not be able to hear your reply but I'm damn sure that you're doing great. My name is Monu. I'm delighted that you have taken few precious minutes of your time to read through this article of mine. I don’t believe in telling you a fairy tale written by someone and narrated by someone else. I want to share a small experience of mine with you. Hence I will be talking directly to you. I hope you are fine with it. Say "YES" {I can't forget my nursery habit of saying "YES" once we became friendsJ}.
It was on a Sunday, that I was supposed to travel to a city called Mysore for a business seminar. I returned from Mysore to my Home city at 12midnight. Now here the thrill begins! Are you curious to know what the MIDNIGHT WALK was all about? Say "YES". A bit loudly, please. Thanks, I heard your inner voice :)
I could not find any buses to my home. So, I decided to take a walk. Mind it! It was not 12 pm but 12 am. Since midnight is all about darkness and silence barring a few insects making noise here and there, I could barely see any people on the road.
As I walked some distance, a bunch of guys talking in malayalam started following me. I was getting a bit tensed. A few seconds passed and one guy screamed "Adingada" (which means HIT him). Oh man! this voice caught my nerves and made me increase my walking speed. It was only few steps later I realised that they had taken a different road and I was all alone again. Dont you think the same happens in our lives? Sometimes we feel a bunch of problems are trying to intimidate us, but as time passes by we realise that those problems were never ours. It was only our fear that made us sweat even during the midnight cold. If you also feel the same, say "YES".
Well, I still hadn't reached home yet. As I walked along I saw 2 people walking together. I thought it would be better I stayed close to them. Remember the 1st std lesson - "We are strong when we are united". I was almost halfway there. Then one of the 2 guys took a left turn and said bye to the other. I thought "may be his destination was left. Not all of us know about our right destinations"(a small mindbender). As I walked, the left out guy asked me if we could go together because he was afraid of the stray dogs and also of the unwanted friends who might take your money without asking you in the darkness. He shared about his job experiences for a few minutes and it was his time to take a right turn for his right destination, HOME. I was once again left alone in the silent breeze of the night.
Life is all about short journeys with different people during different intervals of time. You have to travel through your life from birth till death with just one permanent companion and that is one and only YOURSELF. Close your eyes and recollect those memorable moments with those people whom you miss today..
As they say, the show must go on. Let me tell you the final and most challenging part of my midnight walk. I reached the road where my home was and I was very happy that I had reached my destination. But GOD had his own test. I was hardly 30 steps away and 2 dogs started barking at me. I didn't know how bad their day was as they were throwing all the frustration and anger in the form of loud barks at me. To my bad luck our neighbors were too tired to wake up at 1 in the night(morning) to see what was happening on the road. I didn’t know what those dogs were thinking. If only they could understand what I spoke I could have told them "I am not one of those unwanted friends of darkness. I am one of the most cultured kid of this road". You can laugh imagining my shivering hands and legs, my sweating face and the angry ferocious villainious dogs but this was the most important lesson of my walk.
Are you confused? Listen more. I prayed to GOD, held myself together, had my eyes intact with those of the dogs and took small steps forward. The dogs after sometime got tired of barking and moved away as I opened the gate of my house. I had reached my DESTINATION.
This was my short little episode of life which taught me big lessons. If you liked it say "YES" (can’t forget "kyunki engineer bhi kabhi nursery main tha"). I hope you have added me to your friends list. Do you remember my name? Read the second line.
Yes, I am Monu, see you next time my dear Sonu :)
Author: Mohan BN, Oracle, Bangalore.
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