Sunday, June 8, 2008

A Short Story

This is a short story about a small family.
He was very sincere towards his duties accordingly very popular in his workplace.The collegues pay him respect and he was happy about his achievements.
His wife always teased him about her demands that were beyond means and earnings.After some years children grew older but all proved unsucessful.dependent, idle and liability of family.Resul was obvious he became victim of depression.Family life became sour and sour day by day. Wife and children always made his problems graver day by day. One day old age resulted his retirement from work place and the income remained 50%. Still his family members pressed him to earn more to complete their demands.
He thought to leave family and go some where else and tried many times to do so but returned thinking that who will care about his family members.His such acts were criticised by family members even he was a understood to be a man to be laughed. A sad state of affairs.But No family member was trying to help him to support to increase the income of the family.
One day he became ill.No one was taking cere of him.All were busy in viewing T.V. serial in another room. He collected all his savings in a bag and walked away from his house not to come back.Three days Hospital treatment and than to a cheap hotel and than to a rented room.
Only after a day the family mebers started search but he could not be found.Now a days Two of his sons are beggars on a bus stand their mother helps them in begging. One is peon and another is a porter at a Railway Station.
True tragedy.