Thursday, October 15, 2015
This collection of
30 sad stories will bring tears in your eyes unless you're heartless.
"Your first gift was
beautiful and your last gift is the most beautiful." He said holding his
newborn daughter while standing next to her lifeless body.
"I'm telling you for
the last time not to drive rash on your way home", she cautioned him, not knowing it was the last time indeed.
After so many years, she had
finally found the purpose of her life. Just a day before being diagnosed with cancer.
At the bus-stop, They both
wrapped the jackets around them to keep the wind out. One was waiting for
the bus home, the other preparing for the night.
I was. You are.
"Mama, look! Papa's
photo on paper!!" exclaimed the 3 year old girl. "Army chief lost his life trying to save victims of
North east floods" read the newspaper headlines.
She went to school, hoping that
her day would end soon. It ended unusually soon, but she came back home in a coffin.
She found him at peace, lying
still, with a smile on his face as people around him cried. That was the last
time she saw him smile, and also the last time she smiled herself.
On his way back home, he texted
his wife and told her that he was on his way back home and couldn't wait to
have dinner with his loving family. The text message never reached its destination,
and neither did he.
He shaved his head and showed it
to his mom, 'See mommy, I'm just like you, There's nothing wrong!'
She kissed his bald head and hugged him tightly, tears trickling
down her eyes.
"If you ever feel scared,
call me, I'll be there, His mother had told him.
As his plane went down in flames, her words kept him
smiling."
She was wonderful, beautiful, I
loved her; and then she died.
My trusted bodyguard planted a
bomb in my car...she drove it before I did.
"Someday, we'll sit on the
beach and watch the sunrise together", he said.
Tears rolled down her cheeks while she was sitting on the beach
alone that morning, wishing he had taken the other bus.
Standing before the altar, I watched
the woman I have loved all my life walk slowly down the
aisle, beautiful in her wedding
dress, her eyes sparkling with love. That was the day I was best man at my best friend's wedding.
Every night, from a small gift
store on the way home, he used to buy something for her. Every morning, a sweeper at a cemetery used to
smile.
The lonely mother finally saw her
son come home with glittering medals and awards. But hugging
his lifeless body didn't give her much pleasure.
Soldier: "I was there, at the
Border, fighting for my nation.
And my nation was busy fighting
for votes."
Sitting in a Mercedes, he thought
"Why would she think of me, a rich spoiled boy"
Sweeping the floor, she thought "Why would he think of me,
a poor class-less girl"
While walking down the street, I
heard an old man say "I've been in love with the same woman for almost 50
years now."
I was touched until I heard him say "I wish she knew."
I asked a 14 year old boy working
at a cycle repair shop how much he earns in a month and how
much money he sends to his parents. Apparently, both the questions had the
same answer .
He died for her, when he could
have lived for me", those were the last words of his mother.
She had a loving father, who
passed away. Her step-dad loved her too but not quite in the same
way.
Sometimes, he'll pretend she
didn't die and create a life with her but his heart shows him the truth; she
is gone and his life is empty and cold. In his mind he screams, fury and anger
and pain and loneliness, a sound that reaches heaven and demands to know 'why?'
but silence is the only answer.
The mother wanted her son to cry once, cry
out loud.
And prove to everyone that he was not stillborn.
"I never loved you, leave me
alone" he said to her over the phone clutching his cancer-postive medical
report.
She opened her bottle of sleeping
pills for her last sleep.
"Buses will not stop
here." I
could not read it because I was blind and he could not read it because he was
illiterate.
Before the surgery, doctors gave
her the form to sign consenting a kidney to her husband.
After the surgery, lawyers gave
her the divorce papers .
She Killed me thrice. First, when
she looked at me; second, when she smiled. And third when I saw somebody else
in her eyes.
She was a rainbow.
He was colorblind.
He was lying on the road with his
shirt covered with blood, crying for help.
The crowd standing still and waiting for someone to
come and help and the time went off.
