AGONY AND ECTACY

Damn that cell phone .What business had he to buy one .There was so many things in that consumer market to buy?He could have bought a Mercedes or a camcorder .What was the need to buy after all a cheap nokiya?He cursed all the Gods and the devils. Even if he had got one why should it ring at 12.45 in the noon on that fateful or fatal day in his whole life .What wrong had he done to deserve this kind of treatment from DESTINY .Why the whole world had to turn against him when he seemed to be happy and contented with what little mercies the Gods have bestowed on him .He was already in the fag end of his life and when every thing was fitting in to the pattern that he deserved after a lot of struggle and sacrifice it took one call to shatter his life and bring back all that happened 30 yrs back?Was nt that cruel irony of fate ?
That call he shouldn’t have attended or atleast he should have offed the cell as he usually does when ever it is a new number .Was he not a gazetted officer in the rank of an D.S.P,leave it alone was he not a mature adult . He should have flung that cell to a distant planet or should have battered it on the ground .But he did nothing and one such silly mistake is going to haunt his life for ever .One silly indiscretion and here he is paying dearly,. Did the cell announce a dismissal from service, an arrest or a threat to his life,or a loss of one dear or near,or a great financial loss ;NO! It would have been peanuts compared to the agony that he faced NOW or for that matter EVER .what should he do now . Which Ganges is going to wipe him clean,or how much years of penanance he had to do to calm his mind .
Atleast when the caller had identified,he should have disconnected or answered wrong number .But instead his pulse raced and his mind became mad with elation it was as if he was stuck by a magic and hypnotizing tsunami that carried away his strong footings of the earthly Virgo and he soared high into unchartered space.He was for a moment crazy mad,a flying child,a man sruck by a sweet agonizing lightening.IT was as if he was waiting for that particular call for ages and centuries and he dare not believe his ears.He wanted his ears to be deaf for ever other than hear that voice .He couldn’t stop his deathly thandava and the agonizing silence after the revelation lasted for how long ,he never bothered. Then slowly in total disbelieve he asked “IS THAT YOU’ .and then he swooned never to raise again .He had disintegrated in to the PANCHA BOOTHAS never ever to reintegrate again .