An Encounter with Happiness

One day Prabhat came out of his house and started walking on the roadside heading towards his office, suddenly his eyes fell on something unusual, a Rs. 500 note was lying infantly on the road, he gazed beside and backwards analysing the anxiety of a yes or no, telling his limbs to be with him. His mind was getting overjoyed by the fact that it was a no mans land and he was a complete winner but still his internal atmospheric thermos was telling him that it may not be a wise decision. It can be anybody's currency, a beggar after a comfortable night snooze off to a new day carelessly maybe. Or a man whose wife has been expecting her husband to get her some smiles back home in the evening. It could even be a father's happiness for his son or even a colleague who had lent him this much in bad times. There maybe many a reason for other's to be happy and deprived as well since they will now know its not there in their pockets. Prabhat scratched his head and felt lonely money maybe misused by rogues on the road. He carefully watching all around picked up the note and smiled, maybe its his happiness on this paper today...and walked off...

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Surajit said…
Interesting thought... good one no doubt... i liked it... keep the good work going...
9/01/2009 11:31 AM
Anonymous said…
"to be or not to be" within a middle class man has been emphasised and finally evil wins over d good!
9/05/2009 3:21 AM
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