Imagine a meadow.
Except for a few splattering of trees here and there and that too far in-between, the meadow is devoid of any other structure or cover.
Now imagine the whole of the living humanity standing in this meadow.
The sky is overcast, with grey clouds all over. A cold icy rain is steadily falling – a drizzle in some parts, a torrent in others – on these people standing here. On rare occasions, the sun is victorious, in breaking through the cloud cover, and offering a brief respite. However the ominous dark clouds close in very quickly and shut off the sunlight, all too soon to restart their assault on the poor folks below. Some of these people are standing under the tress, thereby having a little protection from the incessant rain, but the majority of them are left out in the open, with only the unmerciful clouds and the heavens above them.
This is what life is all about. The icy cold rain is the troubles, trials, tribulations that one endures all through the living years, whilst the brief patches of sunlight are the joys and happiness that one gets, albeit rarely.
Karl, like all others was standing in this meadow too, metamorphically. He had, in fact, just about managed to find a spot under a tree, (that was when he had procured a job in this firm and moved here), but was soon pushed back out into the meadow without any cover over his head (when he invested in the villa plot in the project). Still, now that he had surrendered back his plot, and cut his losses, he felt as if slowly but steadily, he was inching his way back under the tree.
Last night, Julian, Carol and himself, had celebrated the surrender of the plot, over drinks at the Caesar Palace club and dinner thereafter. Although it was Karl’s...
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...w out the papers, whilst I submit your proposal to the concerned bank authorities, and we take it from there.”
Karl simply said, “Thank-you.”
The manager smiled again, and Karl got up to leave. As he shook hands with the manager who was still smiling, a worried Karl felt that the smile this time was however completely fake.
As he drove towards the office, from the bank, he thought, ‘Thank God, 19th is just six days away. In six days I will be away from all this tension.’ Already feeling a little better at this line of thinking, he switched on the car radio and tuned in to his favorite “Classic Hits’ channel, where the late Freddy Mercury of Queen fame had just begun to belt out his famous ‘I Want To Break Free’ song.
As he drove along, listening to this number, Karl could not but help compare, how true the words were in relation to him and this country.
that does the paperwork. The bank wasn’t prepared for the amount of work being send to
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* Doerr, Edd. “Gathering Storms.” The Humanist. Volume 64, number 6. Washington.American Humanist Association. November/December. 34-35.
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...e roots of the old tree, the star’s light was intercepted by green shoots and small, crinkled leaves— last season’s seeds. Tiny children of the mother tree, they were doomed to live out their lives under her suffocating blanket of branches. Now as they gazed upward, innumerable points of light gazed back. A light wind rustled the miniature stalks of the saplings, blowing the new debris around in short-lived eddies that danced softly through the night.