WANDERERS – IV

She left him there with something that always made him think when it came to sharing someone’s problems with others. A few laughed in the back and others were put off listening, both of which the victim never realized. As the waves from lake got stronger and the night darker, he went on and on thinking about the recent past where he had no peace of mind to the extent that he had come to a completely strange place he knew nothing about deciding to stay disconnected from the entire world he knew about!

He shared his problems with strangers and friends realizing none could really help because it was him who had to decide, who had to solve them. That didn’t bother him much, but as she said at such a young age ‘I can’t share my story with you because it’s not written by me’-had made an impact on how he looked at things. ‘Yes, I’m here for a revival and what happened with me should not be of any interest to anyone indeed’ he thought and for a while even he had stopped remembering his own problems and sunk in another trance. There were shooting stars in the clear sky, lot many stars than what he had seen in his entire life. No pollution, fresh air and various birds that were heading home formed the part of his evening and he admired himself for making that decision of coming here.

Slowly, but the night was running down and moon changed places which made him realize he needed to feed himself after almost a day full of starvation. He said goodbye to the lake for a while and started walking back on the leafy, muddy n thorny route back to the cave-temple-house that would be his habitat from now on. For the first time he was walking without any light anywhere in the dark night, without knowing where the steps fell, what lay ahead or what the direction was!

A brightly lit lantern hung far across which made him believe it was the cave-house. He remembered the slide and the dreaded dog and smiled at his innocence. He walked past the broken compound walls to enter and noticed that the boy and his mother were sitting on a mat chatting with the sanyasin. They smiled at him and greeted to be seated.

‘Can we have the food now ma?’ the boy pleaded. His mother got up to set the dishes up.

‘…we had to starve because of you!’ the boy complained at the stranger. He understood that they were waiting for him for the dinner and smiled at the gesture.

They all ate well without talking anything and prepared to sleep somewhere under the sky. 


‘She might have slept inside the cave’ he thought about the sanyasin and felt heavy with a simple yet tasty and healthy dinner that made him drowsy too.

After a long time in years, he slept to the fullest with no dreams or interruptions and even the night had become his friend for a change which he enjoyed. There was an absolute silence and peace for far across his new world…

Continues…