I am old. My skin has wrinkled. Expensive
Cosmetics and thick make up can also no more fill the gap. My hair is all grey.
Now a grinning ghost of loneliness dreadfully haunts me. That I am old is
constantly reminded by my shaky limbs. I will go to the dust soon and the wait
will end soon. But none is there to carry the bag of bone when my days are
numbered.
Now I desperately want a “May-I-help-you-genie”.
Where can I get it?
I carried my old and decrepit
body to the biggest store in the city to get a QUICK GENIE of that sort. But I
was late. The store was closed and a huge invulnerable lock was dangling on the
doors. But the shop keeper was there. He was sitting on one of the steps that
led to the shop. Looking at me he asked, “Have you come for that wonderful
GENIE?” I nodded my head in affirmation. Now he smilingly extended his hands at
me and asked for the keys of the shop. I was astonished and confused. “How can
I have the keys? You are the shop owner and you ask for the keys to me.” I
bafflingly reacted.
He was surprised and told, “Don’t
you know this special shop having the genies of HAPPINESS opens by the keys of
the customers only.” I was bewildered and stupefied. He continued, “The people
who adopt KISSING instead of BITING, who adopt COUNTING their BLESSINGS
instead of ENVYING and who adopt HELPING instead of HURTING are presented with
THE KEY that opens the door.”
I now looked at the dangling lock
on the shop and understood that MY PAST WAS IMPERFECT and so the remaining
FUTURE IS INDEFINITE. And all it happened because I did not PRESENT the BEST in
me to the world around me when it was possible. And now the world showed me THE
LOCK and did not give the KEY of HAPPINESS.
On my return I looked back and
gave a last look to that amazing shop with that ever-waiting shopkeeper. My
eyes now fell on the glowing sign board of that shop and it told, “AS YOU SOW,
SO YOU REAP.”
