From & To Sathish #5 - Page 128

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Avan, Aval Adhu 414

In the bible, the devil is supposedly the snake that enters the Garden of Eden and tempts Adam and Eve to eat the apple from the forbidden tree. This angers God who banishes them from Eden a sort of heaven to Earth a sort of hell and a sort of heaven.

My take on humans, devils, and Gods is that all of them are one and the same. Heaven and hell are in the hands of each and every soul. Emotions, and commotions aside, how can there be heaven on earth when we have so many people fighting for happiness and peace through money, fame and power?

How can there ever be eternal peace or happiness on Earth and in our souls when all of us trample, dominate and manipulate each other and constantly find faults in each other?

Ravi Kumar stared fondly and unabashedly at Madhu who left them and went towards the entrance of the house to call her stepdaughter and talk to her in private.

Parthiban threw his arms around Ravi from the back and said, ' Congratulations da. You did it in the end. You finally triumphed in your love.'

' Thanks, Partha. This would not have been possible without you and Daksha ' and looked at his mother and smiled shyly, ' Amma, I hope you are happy now. Just one more day and our marriage will be official and after that, no power either on earth or up in the heavens will be able to separate us both from each other.

Daksha wagged her finger and observed, ' Master, please do not broach the subject of God in vain and please don't predict what it can do or cannot do.'

Ravi realizing his mistake, apologized, ' You are correct, Ducks. But there is nothing God can do that it has not done already in these 25 years. God has made us all suffer for some reason only it knows and I doubt even if it will begrudge us our happiness now.'

Rasaathi Ammal smiled wisely and said, ' Maybe not God but then there remains the devil and her potent threats that hang over you, Madhu, and all of us. Have you forgotten her?'

Parthiban's face filled with fear, ' Dei Ravi, how are you gonna manage that mad woman once she learns about you getting married to Madhu? You think she will let you live in peace. Never.'

Ravi looked at all of them with a steady eye and said, ' I met her. I tried to speak to her. But, I failed and so I left. '

All of them tried to say something but stopped seeing his raised hand and the look in his eyes.

' I have warned her and I think I have gotten through to her. In my heart, I think she will heed my warning and stay away from me and all of us.'

Daksha snorted, ' Warnings and Meenakshi.'

Ravi nodded, ' I know. But this time, I told her that I would kill her with my bare hands and will do it with pleasure.'

He looked at all of them and all of them looked at him and realized that he meant it.

Sighing tiredly, he smiled and said, ' Please, excuse me for a few minutes. I have to call and talk to someone very important and I cannot delay it any longer.'

Parthiban watched his friend as he went through the back door to the large garden to make his call and looked at Rasaathi Ammal who looked at Daksha who smiled and said, ' Me and my gob.'

Pointing to the entrance, ' Madhu we know is getting in touch with her stepdaughter. But, Ravi methinks is getting in touch with an important person and he is doing it for a reason ' and, saying that she looked deliberately at Rasaathi and Partha who chorused loudly, ' To talk to Gayatri.'

Heaven on one side and Hell on one side. Which is the entrance and which is the exit?

And when they come together, what happens? Life happens.

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“I know that I have less to live than I have lived.

I feel like a child who was given a box of chocolates. He enjoys eating it, and when he sees that there is not much left, he starts to eat them with a special taste.

I have no time for endless lectures on public laws - nothing will change. And there is no desire to argue with fools who do not act according to their age. And there's no time to battle the gray. I don't attend meetings where egos are inflated and I can't stand manipulators.

I am disturbed by envious people who try to vilify the most capable to grab their positions, talents and achievements.

I have too little time to discuss headlines - my soul is in a hurry.

Too few candies left in the box.

I'm interested in human people. People who laugh at their mistakes are those who are successful, who understand their calling and don't hide from responsibility. Who defends human dignity and wants to be on the side of truth, justice, righteousness. This is what living is for.

I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch the hearts of others. Who, through the blows of fate, was able to rise and maintain the softness of the soul.

Yes, I hustle, I hustle to live with the intensity that only maturity can give. I'll eat all the candy I have left - they'll taste better than the ones I already ate.

My goal is to reach the end in harmony with myself, my loved ones and my conscience.

I thought I had two lives, but it turned out to be only one, and it needs to be lived with dignity.”

Anthony Hopkins

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Avan, Aval Adhu 415

Madhurima stared at her phone frustratedly and whispered, ' Please, Gayatri. Please pick up and answer my call. I need to talk to you about something very important and I want your permission, your consent before I go ahead with my life.'

She had tried calling her stepdaughter seven times and had gotten the same message, "the person you are calling is not responding " and Madhu not knowing what else to do, decided that she would give it one last try and called and heard a new message, " The number you have dialed is currently busy please try later".

Smiling she fondly scolded Gayatri, ' You have time for everybody else but not for me, and that too when I am calling you about something very important that is going to happen in my life. It's okay child. At least read my message and respond from where ever you are on this planet.'

She quickly typed the message and for safety's sake sent it both via Sms and Whatsapp and then called her friend, guide, and guardian Nirmal Gupta who answered her call on the second ring.

' Hello, Madhuji. Good morning. How are you doing?'

' Namaskar Nirmalji. I am fine.'

Madhu did not know why but her instincts tingled and picked up something in Guptaji's voice and she hurriedly and with concern enquired, ' Is everything all right? Is it your heart again?'

Heaving a sigh of relief Nirmal Gupta thanked God in his heart for giving him an escape route and slipped his acting mask on and acted and interacted differently with his boss and best friend's wife knowing fully well that it was the first time that he was doing so. But he did it because he had been requested by his best friend's only child who he thought of as his own child. Push and pull. It is the heart and soul that take all the toll.

' Yes, Madhuji. It is my heart acting up once again ' he lied and added more to it. ' The doctors have increased my medication and they have left me feeling nervous and breathless.'

' Guptaji, maybe it is time you went in for your bypass surgery. You have been putting it away for more than a year now.'

He chuckled and said, ' Madhuji, being in the corporate business for such a long time, both of us know fully well how important monthly targets are and we regularly thrash that subject out in our board meetings.

Clearing his throat, ' I am sorry to say this but a lot of hospitals are resorting to procedures and surgeries when it is not required but do so just to keep all their beds fully occupied. Normal deliveries are slated for cesarian procedures. A simple angio is pushed to bypass surgery and worse happens when a simple headache is turned into scans and a visit to the ICU.'

' I am sorry but, " Thou doth protest too much" Guptaji' and pausing for a moment, ' I wonder why my mind is telling me that you are lying and doing all this just to keep me in the dark about something.'

Nirmal Gupta panicked for a second for he had not expected Madhu to read not him so well and that too just by the tone of his voice and so slid deeper into his lies and said, ' You are right Madhuji. I am protesting too much and yes it is about my heart. But please, you know how scared I am of hospitals and how I hate the smell of medicine. So, please let us change the topic and instead talk about you and Madurai and the reason you flew down there.'

' I will come to that in a moment, Guptaji. But before that, I just want to know if you know where Gayatri is right now. I have been calling her but she has not answered my calls. I guess she must be busy with some photo shoot and I am sure she will call me the moment she sees my missed calls.'

Nirmal Gupta who was not used to lying and that too to his boss, best friend and a person who he respected a lot, felt a slight palpitation in his heart and taking deep breaths, lied, ' Gayatri. No Madhuji. I have neither spoken to her nor seen her in a long time now. She has been traveling all over the world on assignments for Discovery, National Geographic, and other big-time publications. The last I heard from her was when she was in Africa and that's it and that too was a few years ago.'

Madhu sighed and complained, ' What do we do with this child, Guptaji?'

Nirmal Gupta shook his head wearily and whispered, ' Boss, she is like my own daughter and I care for her as much as you do. But, please, Madhuji, both of us know that she is not a child anymore. She is just a year younger than you and nearly 42 years old. Yet, you still treat her like a child and love her like your own. Amazing.'

' Guptaji, I promised Premji and apart from that, I really love Gayatri and will do so until my end.'

' Sad that she does not reciprocate your thoughts and feelings.'

Madhu smiled and protested, ' I am sorry but I disagree with that thought Guptaji for as I just said, she called me herself a few days back and we spoke for a long time. She sounded different and better than before. There was hope, joy, and something else in her voice. I think...'

' You think she is in love and has met somebody.'

' Yes, Guptaji. I think our Gaya is in love and I hope, really hope, and pray that it works out well for her this time. For I doubt if she can handle another heartbreak.'

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