Bib..Bib..Bib..Bib..Bib……………
6 o’ clock, why do we need to wake up this early to revise the same syllabus which we have already mugged up more than thrice during the year? Even if our pen vomit each and every word exactly as the professor taught us will we score a 100%? Why do we need to give all our 100% to score a 50% ?
Mummy: Uth gayi Beta? Chai Bana Dun?
Niks: Haan aur kuch nashta bhi, I will leave at 8.00 exams will start from 9.00.
Mummy: 8.00??? bas 15 minute ka to rasta hai, kya chal k jane wali ho jo ek ghanta lagega tumhe.
Niks: Nah.. I don’t want to get nervous before exams and I am not going to touch any book any more, I just don’t understand what all can revise and learn in these last minute which they failed to learn in last six months.
Mummy: Beta everyone is not like you, they had more important things to do in last six month than discussing all silly sections of your law book with their mothers even if their mothers don’t even know what a section is.
Niks: If they want to become lawyers they should know why a law was made than knowing that less than 50% will mean one back paper. If they have more interesting topics to discuss why didn’t they opt a future in those areas.
Mummy: Life is more than law exams and a certain future. Your tea and breakfast will be ready in fifteen minutes so after that you may please to leave any time to disturb your friends in their last minute studies.
Niks: well I don’t disturb them I only help them by telling not to waste their last minutes on what is not going to be asked in exams.
Mummy: Your arguments proved your choice of career is so correct.
4 YEARS LATER
Wake up in the morning……….
Wake up in the morning……….
Wake up in the morning……….
9 o’ clock in the morning. Oh God! I am late again. I should stop watching these late night movies; one day my boss will throw me out because of being late. I have to be in court at 10.00. Fir aaj iska sada omelet hi khana padega.
Tring Tring Tring Tring…
Niks: Hello Bhaiya ek chai aur ek bread omelet upar pahucha dijiyega.
Niks get ready and reached court and soon after the case she was in her office with the case files in front of her computer. Today she was lost in memories, past which were glorious, she was confident and clear about her future, she has reached where she wanted to be once but now what next?
Saurabh: Hello Madam! Will you eat something today or want to go to Gupta empty stomach? He is a perfect lalaji you know he is not going to ask you for lunch and if you are planning a lunch date with me today………
Niks: Oh Saurabh Ji Nice Joke Ji…. I have not finished morning’s case file yet. I don’t want to go for any meeting too…But who ask for my wishes here lets go.
10.30 P.M.
Niks: Finally the day is over. Why the hell I left my sweet peaceful hometown for this job? I was so happy there. Is money really that powerful? Haven’t I earned a living in my hometown?
Sare jahan se achha….Sare jahan se achha…
Niks: Hello
Boss: Hi Neelkamal, how was the meeting with Mr. Gupta? Saurabh called me; I want a brief from you too.
Niks: It was good sir. He want no further litigation, out of court settlement is what he is looking for now. We have to talk to Mrs. Gupta, he is ready for a compensation upto Rs. 10 Lac.
Boss: Ok. We will talk in detail tomorrow then. Good Night
Niks: Good Night Sir.
(Oh God, please send me some sense to deal with this nonsense. What Saurabh must have told him, same na?)
Sare jahan se achha….Sare jahan se achha…
Sare jahan se achha….Sare jahan se achha…
Niks: Hello
Anupama: Hi! U heard about Abhishek?
Niks: Who is Abhishek?
Anupama: How can u forget him? Do u remember anything other than your law exam’s marks for any sake from past.
Niks: See Anu, I am so tired from my job, my living habits, I am not ready for any new lectures for now. So will u please directly tell me who was or is this Abhishek? What about him? I am hungry and have to cook now, please be quick.
Anupama: Ha Ha Ha, ok he was the topper of our class, whom you wanted to mess into pieces because of never being able to make him understand marks doesn’t matter but the matter does.
Niks: Arey Haan wo pagal. So what he is upto with all his marks after all these years so that you bothered to call me?
Anupama: Well he had achieved the same u did. The only difference he is not that lucky as you are…
Niks: Lucky and Me? Hey Bhagwan meri sadi job Anupama ko de dijiye, and give me all her peace and happiness.
Anupama: Ha Ha Ha. Leave it. I called you because he needs our help. Today I met his mother. He is hospitalized and having blood cancer. I want you to go and meet him in hospital as he is there in Delhi, with all which I have been able to contribute for him and his family in this situation. You are in touch with others from our batch so it will be good if you may ask them to donate blood for him if they don’t want to contribute monetarily for him.
Niks: Are you serious? How can he have blood cancer? Where is he admitted? I will try to go this Sunday.
Anupama: Sunday? Can’t you arrange to go tomorrow? I have already transferred money in your account. I am trying to come too.
Niks: ok, I shall go tomorrow. Tell me the hospital’s name.
After the call Niks doesn’t feel like eating anything. All her appetite was over. Abhishek, yes he was out of the crowd. At times she yell at him only out of her jealousy, she always knew he will do something better than her. What will he do now? What his parents will do now? What if something happened to ME like THIS? Will all this money, I am dying daily for, help me in getting out of such sickness? What will my mother do then?
This entire dilemma couldn’t let her sleep whole night. Next morning she wrote a leave application to her boss and switched off her mobile. Went to hospital asked for Abhishek but there was no one with such a name admitted. She called up Anupama and her cell went switched off. She think of all the similar names of the hospitals in the city and searched everywhere but no such patient with a same name and matching disease was admitted. Anupama’s cell was switched off the entire day so that of Niks, to avoid calls from office. Finally she returned to her flat at 5.00 p.m. in the evening.
There was a poster on her door with a quotation:
“There should be MENTAL, PHYSICAL and FINANCIAL balance in life to live a LONG and PEACEFUL life.”
What is this? Who did this? And what this watchman keep doing in this building when others are pasting such posters on others doors?
She opened her door and there was an envelope. That was from Anupama & Abhishek.
Hi Nilkamal (Niks),
We are very sorry to bother you in this way; we know that if we would have been there you must have murdered us for doing this to you. It’s your Birthday honey which you have forgotten with all our created worries.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETY!
We thought a lot what you to surprise with on your 30th Birthday, afterall you have all the money now to buy all the brands. With the same thought we realize you are still missing the comfort and joy of life. So, decided to gift you an advice which may help you to plan further your life. Not only success is what we all need, its with success we need emotional and physical balance in life to survive and be happy. Stop ignoring your health and Mr. Saurabh in your life.
We (Anupama, Abhishek, Saurabh and your Mother) will be waiting for your birthday party at 9.00 in Pindbaluchi , C.P.
Oh! Yes, Abhishek is all fit to prank you with something new next time on your birthday and return the money Anupama has transferred in your account.
Once a friend always a friend!
Abhishek & Anupama
Niks closed the letter and tears rolled up her eyes, she was so thankful that “All is Well!!!!”
-Nikita Singh-
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