Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Repentence

Once on a street in Lucknow, a drunken man was roaming & was shouting meaninglessly. He was often falling here & there. It looked like he was not aware with his own address. All of a sudden he stepped into an open manhole
The thing covering gutter etc.
. He lost his balance and got his head blooded after a powerful strike in the nearby lying manhole cover.
From his negative direction was coming a lady dressed in quite old sari. She was looking angry as she was continuously shouting. She was his wife, who was following him since he left desi wine shop. She went there to find him when it became quite late in night. Getting to him she picked him giving him her support. She was scolding him for his bad practises. She then took him to their home which was a quite a distance away from their current location. It was a old brick house with cracked plaster spread all over the floor. In a corner was kept a stove & some half burnt utensils. There was a torn mat spread on the other corner where two of their kids were sleeping. She spread another mat nearby and made him (Mohan
The main character (the drunken man)
) sit on it. She brought some homemade paste and used it on his wound which he got felling in the gutter. Afterwards she brought some food for him in which they had few chapattis with some dal. He was fed up of his daily routine. He just hated the food, they had.

He became so angry such that he started using abusive words for his wife. He threw the plate outside their house. His wife got so angry and got quite upset with her husband’s behaviour.
She went outside to bring back the plate. He was a irresponsible man. He worked at a cotton mill and earns Rs 1000/- a month. He wastes max. Of his money in wine and the rest gets in buying medicine for him as a consequences of wine. Doctors forbade him to do so but he never left wine. The daily expenses were a great challenge. She worked house to house washing dirty clothes and utensils. She had to fed her children. At this condition, this man demands for good food.
A dog was busy eating the thrown food. She charged at it and it fled away. It (the dog) saw Mohan throwing the food and it utilized the lateness of Sheela
The woman (Mohan’s wife)
. The dog was hungry since the previous day. The last time he got food was about 18 hours before the present time. This food was like a gift to it.
She brought the plate inside and went to place it at its position near to the other unwashed utensils. She was quite angry with him thus went to sleep at a mat lying nearby.
Mohan had an evil grouping of friends. They were engaged in many criminal activities all over the city. This all created many of their enemies. Their enemies were often in search
for some occasion to kill them all. As he was about to sleep, he heard something.
As the sound was just for a few seconds, he ignored it. He stood up and went near to the earthen water pot. His legs were shaking due to the intoxication.
At that very moment, the main door collapsed with a great noise. Someone was in their house and within few moments, he opened firing meaninglessly. He was at a corner of that house, behind the door. The killer did’nt saw him. Like him, his family was not so lucky. They were all dead before they could understand anything. Soon the man found Mohan standing nearby to the pot at his very place. He aimed at him. Mohan was feeling quite helpless as he failed to save his family and now he too was going to die.
In his last few seconds, he was repenting for his evil deeds. His wife’s face was before him and he remembered her advices. She loved him and was always by his side in his odd periods. He just wanted to make everything right but this was impossible as no bullet can return back after getting fired. Time always moves forward and can’t be turned in opposite direction.
The man was about to fire when a thing attacked him. The dog was at him and bit him at several places. This gave Mohan to overcome the situation and he picked up the revolver which fell in the dog attack. Seeing the revolver in Mohan’s hand, the man fled away to save his life. Sometime ago he was repenting for his mistakes and God saved him.
He was given the chance to re correct the issues which went wrong. Then to he was upset for his family.
The dog was still there staring him continuously. It came near him and stood near him. It showed its loyalty towards the food which it ate few moments ago. He did’nt fed him the food intentionally but got a fruitful feedback. He took an oath in front of his wife’s dead body that he would leave all evil deeds and would start a new life. He brought that dog home (his new home) and started living happily. Now Mohan has his own home based grocery shop. He makes quite enough for the two of them. He gave up his habit of drinking wine all day and at the same time left his worse grouping. He helped Police in identifying many criminals and served his city in many ways.
That night was a turning point in his life and he could not be able to forget it.