Thursday, June 18, 2009

THOSE DAYS.........


Those days:

When I opened my eyes that morning, finding it heavy to get a complete wake calls, I realized something and went to darkness again. There was an acrid stench that morning and I was feeling it difficult to breath. It was at a height of about 1200 meters that I was taking a nap and I had

acrophobia i.e. I feared height. Anyone who came to know this was astonished that if I had acrophobia then why I was at such a height. It was not me that went on my own but something took me there. After that morning, I had lost all my days, only darkness crawled beside my every second of breath.

Let me begin with another day to give a clear perception to everyone about the events that followed to such darkness of my life. It was a day on which everything seemed to be happening good for me. I got my new bike and I found somebody special. She was Rihana. We were friends at first but we never realized that we were in love at the first sight. She was the ultimate beauty one could ever describe and was full of youth. She had one rare quality that I liked the most. She carried around some abstruse works of philosophy, not because she understood them but because she wanted her friends to think she did.

We were very close to each other for months. Later realizing that we were in love, I proposed her and she gave an approval to it without hesitating. We were very much happy together and even we could have been rewarded as the best couple in our college.

Days past, our academic and work curriculum became a bit strangled and I had to go to Mysore for my project. I was about to return in two months but I couldn’t. I couldn’t bear leaving her out of my sight for a minute but I had to be away from her for more than two months by now.

Finally my project was over and I returned home. Returning I rushed directly to Rihana to realize something that made me speechless forever. She was no more with me, she was dead and that too she committed suicide. Why did she leave me alone? Why did she commit suicide? I was wandering with all these questions when I finally got my answer.

Everyone present there saw me and got surprised. They came up to me and me one question,” You are alive?”. It took me aback and I couldn’t understand what was happening and why. Later someone gave me a clarification of that. They told me that everyone present there knew that I was no more alive. For the last one month I had not called nor contacted anyone and that was true because I was busy with the finishing of my project we were not allowed for any social contact.

Then, they told that last two week ago somebody called and made an announcement that I was dead and gave the proof identity of my death and said that my body was cremated. They cremated my body because they found no one to contact for two days about the body and later they found a contact to call my relatives.

I tried to recall and yes last month I was pick pocketed. My wallet had my relatives contact number but only it was I who could easily find it. So, it may have happened that the man who had pick pocketed me have died for some reason and the one those who cremated the body later may have found someone to contact using my wallet. This news was a shock and disbelieve for Rihana. She, then used to go up to the mountain cliff near her home at about 1200 meters above the sea level and used to sit there for hours thinking that I will return. She had lost her senses to speak and never heard whatever others said to her. Later, two days back, she lost her concentration and fell down the cliff and was no more in this world. She died waiting for me and I came when everything was over.

After coming to know all this, I was completely shattered and found myself alone. Walking across the road thinking that her soft hand still held me and later realizing that I was all alone. That evening, I went to that cliff, shouted “Rihana, Rihana, please come back to me” and cried a lot. I didn’t know when I felt drowsy and went to sleep just on edge of the cliff. I was having acrophobia, so I was also finding it difficult to breath but I slept. Later my eyes opened in the morning, finding heavy to get a complete wake calls, I realized something and went to darkness again.

I went into comma after that and somebody picked me up to the hospital and there I remained forever, though alive but dead forever looking at the photo of Rihana hanging in front of my bed and still reminding those days.

Thank you all………