Melted Moments

Don’t read this with your eyes. See it with your heart. Cos, this is our story……

A moon silver Swift which was being driven at 80Kmph on the KBR park road along the jubilee hills pulled over to the left extreme and came to a standstill after the tyres were locked by the disc brakes.

A few minutes back….

‘Akhil, I want an ice-cream’ Meghana said. I looked at my watch and it was 0100 hrs past midnight. ‘Now?’ I asked. ‘Yes, now… ‘She said. I grabbed the keys on the table and ……

‘I want mango bar…. No… choco bar… no… I think I will go for cornetto…. Hmm.. I don’t know.. I am not able to choose….’ Meghana said.

‘Why don’t you have all the three…’ I said looking at Meghana’s face. They were still sitting in the car and Meghana moved her gaze from the left window and looked at him, ‘So that my teeth get spoiled ….’ And Akhil continued, ‘…. And they will be extracted and you will look like an old woman and you will be stammering and at some point of time, you will stop this blabbering and peace will return to my life…’ I said.

‘Blabbering aaa… peace aaa…. ‘She said even as she hit on my chest before I caught her hands and laughed out loud.

I have been married to Meghana for the past four years. To me, she’s the most beautiful girl I have ever seen or I will ever see. After my mom, perhaps my life mostly revolved around Meghana. Her beauty, her prudence, her loving and caring nature and above all her beautiful smile which seemed to have lighted up my life, all made the world around me look beautiful. And the way I treat her like a two year old kid, makes her feel so secure in my hands.

Every night, I have to feed her food with the spoon running behind her or else she starts crying like a baby. Every night I have to wish her good night by planting a kiss on her forehead else she wouldn’t go to sleep. Every morning she wakes up kissing me, else she feels that her day’s gone for a toss. And every moment she wants me to say ‘I Love You’ to her else she feels miserably alone.

‘Akhil, you know why I need you to love me so much…?’ she asked and there was a pause for a while, ‘Maximum we may live for another 50 years, with god’s grace, and obviously, not more than that. After those 50 years, we will leave our bodies and our souls will merge with the almighty. As a soul, I won’t have any mind and so I don’t think we can love each other so much then. So I need you to default love me so much now.’

‘Every moment I spend with you is precious, every breath I take I am reminded of you, every heart beat makes me love you more and more’

‘A day will come Akhil, when you and I will die. And that day, if we look back at the time we spent together, it’s nothing. Believe me, you will know that we have never spent so much time. You will think that it was yesterday or day before yesterday that you married me. And that you want to spend more time with me because you will feel that we haven’t spent any time together’

‘Life is ephemeral. All these moments of love will melt down. All these feelings of the heart will die from within body. And if you turn back and look at our life, you will see lot of fights, quarrels, loathe….’

‘And that day when I am 60 or 70 years old, I don’t want to feel that I have wasted some precious moments which would then mean a lot to me. I want to enjoy each and every moment with you Akhil, I won’t ask you for anything more…’

‘You know why I wake you up at midnight and ask me to take you for an ice-cream? It’s not that if I don’t eat my ice-cream, heavens will fall down or earth will break apart. I want to see the love in your eyes, whenever I say, we’ll go to have an ice-cream. I want to play with you even at this extra hour of the midnight. I want to feel your love at all points of the time as long as I am alive..’

‘What have I done to you Meghana… why do you love me so much…’ there were tears in my eyes even as I asked her.

‘Akhil, to a child, its parents are everything. Why do the parents love their kid? Why can’t they rear him and later leave him like most animals do? This is where the human race has diversified itself from other species on earth. That extra ability to think, that extra ability to love is the answer for the question. Some one who’s given me birth and bring me up, I have loved them so much, you are some one with whom I have shared my everything, my life, my body and my soul, and some one with whom I am supposed to spend the rest of my life, isn’t it evident that I should love you equally well or even more’

That moment my heart beat stopped. My eyelid slowly dropped blocking my vision. There was nothing around me. The whole world seemed blank. And then Meghana held my hand. And my heart started to beat again. And I opened my eyes and saw the world around me. It looked beautiful. Never before have I seen such a wonderful place to live. The milieu was teeming with love.

I just pulled her close to my heart. And gave her the best hug in all these years since I was married to her. I kissed on her forehead, her cheeks her lips and again on her forehead… I knew I wouldn’t get this time again. Never again.

They say that everyone is born for a specific purpose. I don’t know why I was born till this moment. But then I realized that making my wife happy and loving her so much is one of my purposes.

I prayed to god that time should stop at this point. I just fast forwarded time and I could see her and me walking along the same road hand in hand. The road to that point is very much in my hands. I am going to enjoy each and every precious moment with her.

Finally, the day has dawned and she left me. My Meghana left me after loving me so much for 50 long years. 50 long years, no way, it was more than a fleeting transience, just as Meghana told me. I have enjoyed all these years with her, but the human mind asks for more. It’s never satisfied. I wish I had hundred such lives to spend with her. Perhaps, that would also be insufficient.

And yes, the purpose of my life… because of Meghana’s love, I understood what humanity means, I understood why we need to help others, why human being is some special species…

More than three-fourths of the money I had earned was donated in charity not only for the upliftment of my fellow beings but also for my fellow creatures.

My message to everybody would be, ‘Love your wife, love your parents, and love your fellow beings. Strive for their upliftment and also care for your fellow creatures… Man is something special. He’s changed the face of earth. Leave behind hate, detest and loathe, and see the world through your eyes and you will know how beautifully God has created this heaven for us…’

A metallic black X-4 concept car which was being driven at 80Kmph on the KBR park road along the jubilee hills pulled over to the left extreme and came to a standstill after the tyres were locked by the disc brakes.

A few minutes back….

‘Akhil, I want an ice-cream’ Meghana said. I looked at my watch and it was 0100 hrs past midnight. ‘Now?’ I asked. ‘Yes, now… ‘She said. I grabbed the keys on the table and ……

‘I want mango bar…. No… choco bar… no… I think I will go for cornetto…. Hmm.. I don’t know.. I am not able to choose….’ Meghana, my granddaughter said. My daughter named her daughter in the fond memory of my wife. Meghana, the name I love the most….

‘Grandpa, your ice-cream is melting down…’ Meghana said even when I was reminded of those melted moments with Meghana, my wife.

:- Sanjeev Siva -:

(Writer)

This is one of my all time best stories forwarded through email. I hope you also like the story

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Upgrade At Your Own Risk

Girl Friend Upgrade

Dear Tech Support Team:

Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 5.0 to Wife 1.0.

I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child-processes that took up a lot of space and valuable resources.

In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activities.

Applications such as BachelorNights 10.3, Football 5.0, BeerWithBuddies 7.5, and Outings 3.6 no longer run, crashing the system whenever selected.

I can't seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my favorite applications. I'm thinking about going back to Girlfriend 5.0, but the ' uninstall doesn't work on Wife 1.0

Please help!

Thanks,

‘A Troubled User"

REPLY:

Dear Troubled User:

This is a very common problem that people complain about. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 5.0 to Wife 1.0, thinking that it is just a Utilities and Entertainment program.

Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and is designed by its Creator to run EVERYTHING!!!

It is also impossible to delete Wife 1.0 and to return to Girlfriend 5.0.

It is impossible to uninstall, or purge the program files from the system once installed.

You cannot go back to Girlfriend 5.0 because Wife 1.0 is designed not to allow this. (Look in your Wife 1.0 Manual under Warnings-Alimony- Child Support).

I recommend that you keep Wife1.0 and work on improving the environment.

I suggest installing the background application " Yes Dear* *" to alleviate software augmentation.

The best course of action is to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE because ultimately you will have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the system will return to normal anyway.

Wife 1.0 is a great program, but it tends to be very high maintenance. Wife 1.0 comes with several support programs, such as Clean 2.5, Sweep 3.0, Cook 1.5 and DoLaundry 4.2. However, be very careful how you use these programs. Improper use will cause the system to launch the program NagNag 9.5.

Once this happens, the only way to improve the performance of Wife 1.0 is to purchase additional software. I recommend Flower 2.1 and Jewellery 5.0

STATUTORY WARNING: DO NOT, under any circumstances, install SecretaryWithShortSkirt 3.3. This application is not supported by Wife 1.0 and will cause irreversible damage to the operating system.

Regards,

Tech Support

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Boy Friend Upgrade

Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0

I noticed a slowdown in the overall performance, particularly in the Flower 2.1 and Jewellery 5.0 applications that had operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, but installed undesirable programs such as Cricket 4.1, NFL 5.0 and NBA 3.0. And now Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and House Cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.

I've tried running NagNag 9.5. to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?

Thanks,

‘Desperate"

Reply:

Dear Desperate:

First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an entertainment package, while Husband 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM. At the command line, try entering C:\ITHOUGHTYOULOVEDME and download Tears 6.2 to install Guilt 3.0.

 

If all works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Flower 2.1 and Jewellery 5.0. But, remember, overuse can cause Husband 1.0 to default to GrumpySilence 2.5, HappyHour 7.0 or Beer 7.4

Beer 7.4 is a very bad program that will create snoringloudly.wav files. Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-Law 1.0 or re-install another Boyfriend program. These are not supported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have a limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider additional software to improve memory and performance. I personally recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Lingerie 9.9.

Regards,

Tech Support 

Every (House 0.0) System can contain (Husband 1.0 and Wife 1.0) more than one operating systems. But at a time, anyone can work on only one operating system, that’s why everyone should know which operating system should be used at what time. This will keep the system cool and running all the time without crashing. Love inside pom pompompom (Intel inside)

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Two Bedroom Flat

As the dream of most parents I had acquired a degree in Soft ware Engineering and joined a company based in USA, the land of braves and opportunity. When I arrived in the USA, it was as if a dream had come true.
Here at last I was in the place where I want to be. I decided I would be staying in this country for about Five years in which time I would have earned enough money to settle down in India.

My father was a government employee and after his retirement, the only asset he could acquire was a decent one bedroom flat.

I wanted to do some thing more than him. I started feeling homesick and lonely as the time passed. I used to call home and speak to my parents every week using cheap international phone cards. Two years passed, two years of Burgers at McDonald's and pizzas and discos and 2 years watching the foreign exchange rate getting happy whenever the Rupee value went down.

Finally I decided to get married. Told my parents that I have only 10 days of holidays and everything must be done within these 10 days. I got my ticket booked in the cheapest flight. Was jubilant and was actually enjoying hopping for gifts for all my friends back home. If I miss anyone then there will be talks. After reaching home I spent home one week going through all the photographs of girls and as the time was getting shorter I was forced to select one candidate.

In-laws told me, to my surprise, that I would have to get married in 2-3 days, as I will not get anymore holidays. After the marriage, it was time to return to USA , after giving some money to my parents and telling the neighbors to look after them, we returned to USA .

My wife enjoyed this country for about two months and then she started feeling lonely. The frequency of calling India increased to twice in a week sometimes 3 times a week. Our savings started diminishing. After two more years we started to have kids. Two lovely kids, a boy and a girl, were gifted to us by the almighty. Every time I spoke to my parents, they asked me to come to India so that they can see their grand-children.

Every year I decide to go to India .. But part work part monetary conditions prevented it. Years went by and visiting India was a distant dream. Then suddenly one day I got a message that my parents were seriously sick. I tried but I couldn't get any holidays and thus could not go to India.. The next message I got was my parents had passed away and as there was no one to do the last rights the society members had done whatever they could. I was depressed. My parents had passed away without seeing their grand children.
After couple more years passed away, much to my children's dislike and my wife's joy we returned to India to settle down. I started to look for a suitable property, but to my dismay my savings were short and the property prices had gone up during all these years. I had to return to the USA..

My wife refused to come back with me and my children refused to stay in India.. My 2 children and I returned to USA after promising my wife I would be back for good after two years.

Time passed by, my daughter decided to get married to an American and my son was happy living in USA... I decided that had enough and wound-up every thing and returned to India. I had just enough money to buy a decent 02 bedroom flat in a well-developed locality.

Now I am 60 years old and the only time I go out of the flat is for the routine visit to the nearby temple. My faithful wife has also left me and gone to the holy abode.

Sometimes I wondered was it worth all this? My father, even after staying in India, had a house to his name and I too have the same nothing more.

I lost my parents and children for just ONE EXTRA BEDROOM.

Looking out from the window I see a lot of children dancing.
This damned cable TV has spoiled our new generation and these children are losing their values and culture because of it. I get occasional cards from my children asking I am alright. Well at least they remember me.

Now perhaps after I die it will be the neighbors again who will be performing my last rights, God Bless them. But the question still remains 'was all this worth it?'

I am still searching for an answer...... ......... .!!!

... WRITTEN BY AN INDIAN SOFTWARE ENGINEER..- A Bitter Reality


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This is one of my favorites stories, If I look at the life of a software engineer, the harsh truth is we(software engineer) work like donkey ,sacrifice personal life, not in touch with relatives, attend marriage or any other function just to showcase the status, Love privacy even from our parents,Importance to career rather than the family, I can go on...and Software engineer does that for just having an extra bedroom??? I think the main reason behind this culture is that fame, name are more important than the relationship or i can go head and say LIFE.

There are very few people who understand the value of life, I have even seen few software engineers value their life more than money/name/fame.When i have dug deep, i learnt that ,life had taught them a lesson in the hard way. Please heed to your parents, their life was/is as difficult as your life is. Learn from their mistakes and don't commit the same mistakes and repent later.

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