Wednesday, August 22, 2007

A journey through thorns.

Suddenly his eyes opens and he can see the morning light coming into his room from the window which were still covered with beautiful curtains. it was a hot summer day with AC blowing at the lowest possible temperature, but still there were drops of sweat on his forehead. he went to the bathroom took a towel and wiped off his sweat. He had a bad dream, a dream that he cant remember but there was something unpleasant about that dream. it was already 6 in the morning and he has to get ready for the day. he came back to his room where he saw his wife sleeping and suddenly there was a smile in his face. his wife was due for a baby any moment of the day, it was just a matter of time. it was already her 9the month and 12th day.

he took out his cloths and went straight towards the only bathroom in his 2 room apartment. one of the room was already taken by his elder soon who was in 2nd standard. but from the day one there was something about the boy that bothered him all the time. he was never sure that his elder son would be able to take over the business that he is pursuing, which at that point was going into losses. and as the time passes he was sure that his elder son was not the one who would take on his seat once he retired. the moment he entered the bathroom to take shower he started worrying about the debt which he has to pay off. he remembered the day when he borrowed some funds from a man who has got not a good image in to market and if it wouldnt had been a desperate need of money he himself would have never come to him. But he wanted to invest the money in share market with a very strong tip from his best friend. but the tip was proving to be false and by that day he had already lost half of the money in the market.

He took his shower and got ready for the day. as he stepped out of the bathroom he could see his wife smiling with 2 slices of bread and a tea already placed on the table. he realized that he has taken more than half an hour to get ready and while he was thinking about the losses in the business his wife was already making breakfast for him. He went straight towards her and kissed her forehead. had his breakfast and he was ready to take on the day only thinking what worse could happen today. as the stock market had already crashed in previous week and there was no scope of any recovery in near future. as he entered his small office and started the very old computer that he recently purchased from a shop keeper, so that he can at least be ready to witness the opening of the market, may be he might can recover some money today. as he waited for stock market to open he got a call from one of his acquaintance that Mr. kevin brockner wants his money back within 48 hours. after the call has ended he couldn;t think about anything other than his fate. what will happen if he is not able to repay the money to kevin brockner and suddenly his phone rang again. but this time it was from his friend rokiee mart and he gave him the news. the market that day has opened on a very weak note and that the shares he has purchased are making nothing but looses and adviced him to sell off all the stock that he has so that he can cut his further losses. as he placed the reciver back on the phone he was already thinking about the money that he owe to Mr. Brockner as today was no lucky day as well. he was again making losses and that how he was supose to tell Mr. Brockner that he has no money to pay and that he might has extend the deadline by some more days. he was complely drowned in the thoughts when again his phone rang. He picked up the call and after few minutes of listening to the caller he placed the reciver back again but this time the reciver wasnt placed on the phone in a proper way. as he placed the reciver partly over the phone and partly over the desk he couldn;t bother has he put the reciver back properly or not and withen seconds he was sweeting badly. he closed his office for the day and took a cab straight to St. peter hospital.

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