Every human life is a pot of uncertainty and is an outcome
of decisions mounded out of jumbled thoughts. To succeed or to find the
ultimate happiness in life is just a matter of luck or a meer game of un anticipation.
Successful people would define life as a result of focus or hard work which
made them rich or powerful. But, for all those who lived for love or with by
keeping their heart on fellowship, togetherness, it's just a mirror with a
false reflection.
To me, Vinay was an epitome of innocence or like an overflowing
bowl with immense affection towards people. Yet, he was a strong boy with a
strong heart. His childhood started on the verge of a situation where, the
world was about to let its door opened for the giant technological development
with unpredictable growth in the field of software and communication. I would
say, his childhood had a narrow escape from being swallowed by mobile phones
and computers.
His mother was a common bank employee whose entire life was
revolving around the usual bank terms like debits and credits followed by the
urge for promotions and salary hikes in order to have a better life in the
society and also to run her family in the small town called tripunithura. When
vinay was a teenager, he understood that it was his mother's salary which was
keeping the family moving ahead day by day .But, on the other side, it was his
father's contribution that made the family prosperous and secured with a
buoyant bank balance, a dream house and other financial support a common family
could imagine. His father was a part of the huge proud malayalee crowd who was
working incessantly in the Middle East. Vinay's father was working as an
engineer for an oil and petroleum company in Oman. But, as usual, as a coin has
another side, vinay's life too had another sorrowful side. He never liked his
father and he hated him the most.
Vinay's elder sister was totally the opposite of him. To
some extent, even she behaved quiet similar to her father towards Vinay. A
small portion of father's arrogance had also splashed on her behavior.
Nonetheless, Vinay's childhood was filled with his mother, sister and his
uncle. We shall meet his uncle in the coming chapters.
Apart from the normal school going child’s tension and
worries, Vinay’s childhood was quiet happy as he had everything which a normal
middle class boy couldn't afford. As mentioned earlier, the reason was his
mother’s secured central Bank job and his father’s prestigious job in the
Middle East. So he had every reason to study in a reputed CBSE school in the
town.
The boy was dark and had straight long hair like his father.
When he was a school student, his classmates commented him as “black beauty”.
His music teacher, Mrs. Sharmila wrote a song about him and even taught the
song to the entire school. She also made the kindergarten students dance for
that song in the annual school day function.
Vinay loved his school and his friends and will always
cherish the good memories about them in his whole life. He is truly blessed
with a wonderful school life. He still remembers the moment once he really
wished that the school would not close for its x’mas vacations way back when he
was in 8th Standard as he didn't want to miss friends for 10 days. He also
remembers the moment when one of his teachers surprisingly dashed into his
class and announced that their
10th class was coming to an end from the next day for
the exam preparations. Tears almost dropped from his eyes that day. The Boy was
very proud of boasting that he had not missed even one day's attendance in his
9th standard. And unbelievably his attendance was 100% in his
10th standard.
The sad part was that, life shut the door of happiness at
vinay too early. Life took him through many obstacles which he never ever
expected. He had to go through an array of painful occasions. He faced
unexpected stumbling in his family, made wrong decisions in his career and was
mentally isolated and confused in finding a solution to a disturbed life.
He was forced to make unintentional conclusions about life.
He felt loneliness everywhere and was deprived of serenity and calmness on his
thoughts. He would have had a silly smile on his face when he had told this to
himself. “Life is just once and to live it happily, there should be love,
togetherness, understanding and forgiveness. Life becomes dark when people
starts living for money and later it would become a struggle when the money
cheats on you and then make you run away into the arms of depression.
Ultimately, one would end up in losing the family, their trust and their love
upon them”.
Good read, looking forward for more posts.
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