Walk Of Life -- Story of that one night

This story is of a guy , a guy who never knew what that one night had with it for him. Its the story of a guy who bid farewell to his love at the bus stop and was on his way back to his college and was unaware that the night was not going to be like any other night.

Its the story of surat city ,gujarat, story of a night when two people were there at the bus stop, half an hour ahead of scheduled time of the bus to spend some moments together before they were going to part off for the weekend , a weekend which the girl was going to spend away from the guy for whom she meant everything. The guy ,who was praying to God again and again for some more time, praying that what if the bus never shows up or wishing that even if it does ,make it as late as possible but to the dismay same was not the case for the girl. She was praying for the bus to come as early as possible but that day God wanted to grant the guy some more time with his beloved.So the bus kept on getting delayed and they spent two and half hours together at the bus stand waiting ,waiting for the two hour delayed bus,waiting with the guy staring with immense love at the girl who had fallen asleep in his arms for those two hours.

But finally the bus came and the guy said good bye with a heavy heart to the girl...girl ; who was happy to see the bus finally arriving and was totally unaware of what the guy felt in letting her go, unaware of how badly he wanted to stop her from getting on the bus because it was going to take her away from him for those two days.But the bus had to go and so it did , it went away taking someone's love with it.
And so the guy kept on standing at the same place for 10 mins after the bus quietly departed taking away his piece of heart with it and then began his journey ,his journey back to his hostel, his journey at 1 am in that moonless night and his journey with just 45 bucks with him to reach his hostel.

As the guy slowly started his walk away from the bus stand he realized that his friend has asked him to bring some cigarettes so out of those 45 bucks with him, he bought four cigarettes and lit one out of those four right there to relieve some anxiety, anxiety which he felt because of letting his beloved go away from him and then he took those 25 bucks and with the burning cigarette in his one hand he slowly moved to get an auto rickshaw. Since he didn't have sufficient money, he decided to do break journey and took one auto which dropped him to majura gate for 10 bucks.Now with 15 bucks in his pocket he waited for another auto to come. Time passed but no auto showed up and after waiting for ten minutes he started walking on the road , ghod dod road

Under the sky filled with countless stars but no moon he was slowly walking and didn't know it was going to be the most memorable walk of his life..
On his way from ghod dod to parle point he was al alone on the road with dead silence surrounding him which was only disturbed when a recklessly driven vehicle used to pass by him. With deeply engrossed in his thoughts suddenly some sounds distracted him . When he tried to figure out from where the sound came , he was filled with mixed feelings of shock and amazement... What he had in front of his eyes on the footpath was a poor couple making love under the very same moonless star studded sky. He couldn't believe his own eyes and was dumb struck and couldn't strike cords with the fact that the poor couple had no place but the corner of the road,the footpath, to make love.
With a stirred up heart and mind he kept on moving with the same pace and crossed them trying to show no reaction.Then after walking for few more minutes he saw a father screaming at her nude daughter and again this was the same footpath, footpath on which today he saw life, a different side of life. A side which was breathtaking and invigorating , a side which scared him by uncovering the crudeness of life.

Still the guy kept on walking at the same pace with confused thoughts occupying his mind and with curt moments of consciousness where he tried to stop every passing rickshaw but none stopped.Then he encountered something unexpected again ,watching a well dressed young man walking all alone on a road in the middle of night the dry state police enquired him if he was drunk or doped..twice came the patrolling squad but after listening to him twice he was allowed to go.

It had been more than half an hour but the guy kept on walking as he was not even half way close to his hostel. Then suddenly he realized that he was crossing the place where the girl has bought something for herself the very same evening.Her voice echoed in his ears and her face flashed right in front of his eyes but then he realized it was silence around him this time..the girl was not with him..and this very thought made the place look totally different to him.

It made him real awkward to see those same places that night..what all he had in his mind and heart was the thought of the girl , he could feel the touch of her hands and realized how terribly he was missing the girl , how miserable it felt to not have her by his side, how incomplete he was without that hand in his hands. Preoccupied by all these thoughts he finally came to the place where they used to have coffee and talk at lengths, the place which finally got him an auto and took him to his college in that dark cold night.

Finally now the guy was in his college, the college which again gave him the sense of security and relieved him of the worry that he was walking on a silent dark street at 2 am with no soul to be found as far as his eye could see.When he went inside the campus it was again a very new experience ,the campus was silent..unusually silent as because for some reason all the road lights were off .. he had never seen all lights off.. but they were this time..but still he didn't feel a thing and kept on moving..listening to the leaves whispering to each other and hearing the sound of wind playing with the leaves.
The guy was now calm but the night had one more surprise for him.After walking for few minutes the power was back and all road lights lit up and then his heart dipped as what he saw on the other side of road was a man wearing a shabby old piece of cloth with tousled and entangled long untidy hair covering his face and he was staring right at him and smiling.It was that psycho.

And that psycho was smiling, the psycho who was part of many stories told and heard in the campus. That psycho was right in front of his eyes and so once again the silence of the night broke the guy's confidence and scared him. He paced up and tried to ignore him and when that psycho disappeared in dark the guy took the final road to his hostel from canteen and bang...the psycho has disappeared just to come back once again..
this time that psycho was squatted on the ground at the very same place where the guy and the girl used to sit together and fight every moment after class on the most trivial issues .

But this time the psycho was expressionless..he was just blankly staring at the guy.

The guy felt his heartbeat increasing and realized that his mind has stopped working , with one fist tightly clenched he tried with other hand to reach his phone and call his friends ...but the guy forgot it was 15 august..his country's Independence day,a public holiday and while all the time he thought he was using his free balance to message the girl ,he was going more close to zero balance and when he dialed his friend's number , the service provider informed him of his balance and so was he informed that he had to handle this all alone . All this time he kept on moving at the same pace with the man's eyes glued to him ,but the psycho didn't move , not even an inch and the guy finally made it to his hostel...drank some water and came to his room...

ALL TIRED AND SHAKEN FROM INSIDE HE OPENED HIS LAPTOP AND WROTE OF THE NIGHT... THE WALK OF HIS LIFE ....THE STORY OF THAT NIGHT..