Sunday, January 3, 2010

Random Story #4


It’s been a while since my last post, I guess I have been offline for rather long I see a few people have visited my blog during my absence and some have even written comments, well that’s always pleasant anyways thank you all for reading. Most of you have liked my stories, that’s a pleasant surprise and for those who weren’t satisfied there is always a next time. So Happy New Year to all and here is Random Story #4.
A HERO'S TALE


It’s a lazy winter afternoon and our hero is getting bored everyone else in the house is busy with an afternoon siesta but he being a 10 year old boy is bubbling with too much energy to engage in a similar act. He is getting increasingly restless , “what should I do?” our hero wonders. After a little brainstorming he decides to hit the neighborhood playground. He calls a few of his friends but apparently their mothers don’t think it is such a great idea, so our hero decides to go solo like heroes often do. The park was rather empty , “so, this is why our performance at the Olympics is so pathetic” our hero concluded. After a bit of wandering around he got bored and decided to visit the nearby mall to check out the new toys and maybe update his list of birthday wishes. As he was scanning through the toy store he saw something and his eyes brightened, on taking a closer look our hero realized it was a Rs.500 note.
What should he do now? Give it to the owner of the owner of the place, there was no one else around , ”but why should he get it ? it wasn’t his either and moreover he didn’t even let me touch the toys properly”, our hero thought of the new power ranger toy he could buy, his father had turned a deaf ear to this demand of his, “it’s too expensive and you always get bored and throw them away” he had said. But what about the fact that every other friend of his had one of these in their possession, he had resigned to the fact that his father will never understand and he was never going to get it but this was his chance to redeem himself infront of his friends to be the cool kid once again, our hero weighed the pros and cons and came to the most logical conclusion, “I am going to take the money”, the decision was made. Before anyone could see our hero picked it up, slipped it into his pocket and clandestinely fled the scene, not a very heroic exit one could say.
After our hero had made the list of the things he decided to buy with the 500 bucks he recently acquired he went ahead to buy the first thing on the list, his favorite ‘Dairy Milk’, as he was busy counting the money left a very old lady approached him with a semi naked  5 year old suffering from malnutrition beside her begging for money. The plight of the five year old moved our hero and he generously gave them 50 bucks, the old lady was surprised and elated at the same time, she thanked him a million times and wished for his well being, but our hero was surprised by the fact that how good this felt, so our hero radically decided to sacrifice the socially critical toy to help the beggars, they were easier to find then he had thought and within half an hour all his money was over.Our hero was ecstatic with the turn of events of the day, maybe even overjoyed. On his way home biting on the dairy milk he had bought he was sure he had never been more happy and content at the same time.
Our hero like most others was not blessed with good fortune. The place from where he got his beloved chocolate was a place his father frequented to buy cigarettes, the shopkeeper had returned our hero Rs. 10 less then what he should have, our hero was in a philanthropic spree and couldn’t have cared less but the shopkeeper was an honest fellow and gave the 10 bucks to his father and told him about the 500 rupees. Our hero’s parents had a quick meeting  and they came to the conclusion that their son had stolen the money from somewhere, oblivious of this recent build up our hero was sitting in his room basking on his own glory. What followed is for you to imagine. All I could make out from the screaming and squealing was a hero’s fall from grace.

16 comments:

IdleMind said...

Loved the innocence throughout! and can also make out that you were too engrossed writing it out ...

Alas the adult world ... they never see the philanthropist in the child. :(

Sorcerer said...

man..loved it dude..
the lines were soo...pure and had that innocence in it.
:)

want to see more of such stuff..cool one re

itsyvitsy said...

I was a little disappointed with the ignorance of the parents. It is built in to the human nature to make decision for others and decide on the actions made by others. You have brought out this ignorance and matured stupidity of the adults very nicely. Also, I liked the way you carried the child's innocence from the beginning to the end.

Wishing you a happy and prosperous year of 2010.

Shriti said...

That was really sweet
Loved the innocence :))

nil said...

Man,love your blog. Seriously.


Hope to see more of u on my page (:

el_idioto said...

one word "Inspiring"

Oxymoron said...

@idle indeed at one point i did feel i was getting carried away by the story...i had a longer version in my mind but then i felt it would be too melodramatic so i ended it rather abruptly....

@sorcerer thanx for the comment i am glad you liked it.....welcome to my blog

@vittaldas as humans we are all judgmental coming to quick conclusions is what we do best....parents especially have that blinding ignorance, they think they know what's best for their child....
best wishes to the new year for you too...

Oxymoron said...

@CL i ave a very similar feelings towards chocolate...anyways welcome to my space...thanx for liking it...

Oxymoron said...

@nil welcome to my blog....and i will definitely visit your blog again.... :)

@rishi you are very kind dude....

Chhaya said...

Nice one :)

btw, isnt it always nice to scrifice the money that never belonged to us in the first place.

and its always easy to lecture a kid...

:)

Oxymoron said...

@chhaya indeed it is but i guess you will agree it is a very idealistic view....500 to a 10 year old is like me having lacs.....and honestly i am not sure in that case....so this little guy is the hero...

Amity said...

Hi!

I've followed you and here I found you...:)

I am following another blogsite with the same name "Random Thoughts" by KP...thought it is the same KP in disguise, trying to be young...oppsss...sorry for that, anyways i like your site...really a good one for the youngsters...:)

but anyways, i will surely follow you!

good day!

Somdatta said...

very well written!! ur blogs are too gud, and this one specially...its so innocent n pure

Anonymous said...

You are a true short story writer!
Write more and print the book soon. I am sure gonna buy it with your autograph on the first page!

Oxymoron said...

@amity welcome to my blog...i am glad you liked it..

@somdatta it's been a while since you came to my site...thanx for liking it...

@yemiledu hey...wow....incase i do manage to get a book published i'll send you a free copy just for writing this this comment..

Anonymous said...

To own a book with the authors autograph will be a dream come true...and that too for free :~)
Heyyyy!I'm excited...!
Thankyou!