A Nightmare

Last night when I was watching an English movie there is a scene similar to one of my dreams which created many nightmares when I was doing job in Bangalore.

It's a summer evening; I was riding my bicycle through our campus starting from main block, right turn to cross the auditorium and then took a short cut along professor's colony to reach the main road through the second gate. As I just crossed the road an unseasoned rain started pouring heavily and there was no shelter I could stop by except a tree and a half ruined hut just abuts onto the main road. By standing under the tree close to the hut I looked inside with expecting no one but mysteriously I saw a middle aged guy and his fifteen year old son sitting on a broken cot with a roll of tobacco fuming in their mouth. I asked that chap why he was spoiling his son by encouraging the smoking. Unwittingly taken aback by some unfamiliar voice he told me that he never denied his son to do what he wanted to do and left to his choice. He told me that he sent his son to school when the boy really wished to go and later he didn't say anything when his son desired to work in a mechanic shop. I asked the boy why he stopped going to school when his father was ready to send him. To be perplexed by my query he retorted that he's very much happy in playing with screws and bolts in the auto shed. He also uttered that he never do anything against to his happiness. Unconvincingly, I told him that he needs schooling at least to get basic knowledge of what is good and what is bad. I also stressed the importance of studying in becoming successful and rich although he seemed to be not interested in my discourse.

The rain god has not finished his smiling yet, I was called to stand inside for protecting myself from showers under the tree. After a long pause the boy asked me what I do and weather I was happy in doing so. Well, I could admit unwaveringly that I was happy in what I was doing (I meant in doing job). He also asserted me that I would be happy only if I listen to what my inner voice says.

Once rain stopped everything got disappeared and I was wakening up by my mobile alarm to start another unpurposeful day throughout which I would be spending in office against to my wish.

After many days of affliction I conferred with my soul and I decided to quit my job in pursuing what I always wanted to do.

-Raghu

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