Disclaimer: - All resemblances to people who are living or dead is purely coincidental.
Hello, I am the Sun. Ya, the one whom you love the most in winter and the one whom you hate the most in summer. My life is pretty bored here rotating around myself. So, I have cultivated a special habit -to study human beings. I watch one particular human being everyday. India is one of my favorite places and there is lot of buzz about software engineers in India. So, yesterday I watched a software guy’s life and wanted to share with you.
It was a cloudy day. So, clouds have covered up me and I came out late. It was about 6:30am (in Hyderabad) when I could clearly see the earth. I went into his bedroom through the window. Btw, his name is Santosh. But I never saw 'Santosh'am on his face (except once). Okay, let’s try and wake up him. I warmed him a bit and woke him up.
"Bloody Sun! Why the hell it is so warm today." How dare you to scream at me. He continued his screaming "Who the hell constructed this building. Bloody civil engineers! They don't know how to construct buildings also. They get their degrees copying and cheating and construct these kinds of buildings". Then he sat there cursing every possible person. After sometime, he took his towel and observed that his roomie has already occupied the bathroom.
"Why the hell do people occupy it when I needed it? It’s always like this. People are selfish they don’t think about others. I need to go to office early today. Otherwise, my manager would screw me up". He talked with himself for about 5 mins and his roomie came out. He gave a disgusting look at his friend and rushed into the bathroom. When he came out his friend bought him idly. He saw them and muttered "I am very hungry today. These idlies are not sufficient. Don’t you know that you have to bring more? Selfish people then don’t even understand their roomies hunger". [You can imagine his friend face expression]. Nevertheless, he didn’t say anything. Probably it is common to him.
He ate his breakfast cursing the tiffin center guy for giving less chutney to him. He called him lot of names like miser and all. And he took out a neatly ironed T-shirt and Jeans pair. And he started at the 'dhobi' now, for leaving stains on this T-shirt and not ironing them properly. The caption on the T-shirt (ironically) said that "If attitude is money then I am worth a billion". If I had been his dhobi I would have erased that billion and wrote Zero in its place.
He came out and saw that his bike was punctured. His anger shoot up like anything. He thought for a while and remembered that he gave his bike to Shivaram yesterday. "Bloody Shivaram! If he don’t know how to ride a bike why the hell he took my bike. Stupid people! I would teach him a lesson today. Shit! I have to take an auto today".
An auto driver was waiting outside looking at him and asked him whether he wants to hire the auto. "How come these auto people know that my bike is punctured? May be he is also involved with Shivaram. Now he is going to make a fortune out of me. But I don’t have any choice. Let’s go". He got into the auto and the auto-driver started his auto and played some latest songs. Traffic jam. He was saying it aloud "why does everyone come in my way and make things difficult for me. Why do people create traffic jam? Why can’t they wait and go one-by-one. Filthy people!” For this the autodriver laughed out aloud and then our santosh started screaming at him "why are you playing those songs. I am getting headache because of that. What is this smell? Are you mixing kerosene with petrol for your auto". The autodriver understood his frustration, smiled and said "No Sir! My auto runs with gas not with petrol/kerosene". And our hero turned his attention to traffic jam and started calling names at everyone he saw.
He got out his auto before his office campus and then it started drizzling. "Filthy rain! Why does it rain always! Can't we live without rains? If I see this rain god, I would kill him". Oh! Now he started screaming at my friend, rain god. He ran into his office, wishing none and cursing everyone under his tone, for not wishing him. He logged into his machine and checked his mails. "Why do people send forwards at all? Bloody buggers! Useless creatures, only thing they do in the office is read mails and forward them nothing else. Wasting their time and others time also". And then he wrote mails to everyone cursing them to stop sending forwards to him.
And then came lalitha. He is eagerly waiting for her. He asked her to do his work and it was urgent. His manager asked him to complete it by today. When lalitha came he asked her "what happened? Did you complete my work?". She said "I was busy yesterday. I will complete it today" and smiled. His anger shoot up, he thought why people don’t understand how important it is for me. He wanted to yell at her but controlled it and went with her, sat at her desk and stressed her to complete it. Finally, lalitha completed his work.
Meanwhile, Shivaram came to office. (Without even saying thanks to lalitha) He ran to him, folding his fingers to give him a punch in the stomach. Shivaram stopped him when he was about to reach his stomach and asked him "what happened santosh? Why are you so angry at me".
"Rascal! You have punctured my bike and acting as if you don’t know anything".
"Me! What! Are you joking? I took your bike yesterday afternoon and If I punctured it then how come you went home in your bike yesterday".
"I don’t know that! Its you who has done that I know it"
"How? It could have happened when you went to home back" saying that Shivaram pushed him aside and went to his cube.
"Bloody Rascal! He did the mistake and blaming me for puncturing my bike".
It was lunch time. He went to lunch alone. His team members were sitting in his adjacent table and laughing. "Stupid fools! They don’t have anything else to do except making fun at someone all the time. May be they all are playing jokes at me. Stupids! Why don’t they mind their own business".
After that in the afternoon his manager called him to his office and he went in. "Good Man! You did it! I appreciate you for that". Santosh remained aloof.
Manager asked him "what happened santosh! Why are you so dull? Anything wrong". "Wrong! Everything is wrong. I do great work and you don’t give me hikes".
"I gave you hike and a 'Good' rating".
"But not Excellent or outstanding why?"
"I think it is useless to talk about that now". With that manager continued with his work.
Santosh came out burning like a hot iron in the furnace. He felt why people don’t allow him to be happy. "Happy" he thought. His synonym to "Happiness" is siri, his girl friend. He promised her to meet at durgam cheruvu at 5pm. He looked at the time, 4:30pm. As he don’t have bike, he has to start now to reach there. While going, a boy came and started begging "Brother! Brother! Please brother! Give me one rupee brother. Just one rupee". He gave a disgusting look at him and said "che!! che!! filthy people! get the hell out of here. Go out of my sight". And he thought how bad his day had been. Its been like this only everyday. Everybody hates me. They don’t understand me. They don’t allow me to be happy. I hate this world. Anyway, I have siri. She only understands me. No one else.
While he was thinking about her, she came running. He took her hand and kissed it. She was very happy about something. He said "You know how ..." and she completed the sentence "wonderful my day have been! I am very happy. Everything went perfectly alright today. I am so happy. You know what happened. I will tell you everything, come we will sit there".
They sat on a bench and she started "I fell asleep and had nice dreams. Thank to this sun! He woke me up today. I went out and saw the sun it was in red color. He was partly hiding in clouds. I took his pic. See this! How good na?"
"Ya! Ya! Very good very good". I am pleased. Long live my child siri.
She continued.” Then when I was about to go to bathroom my roomie came and pleaded me that she wants to go an interview and she wants to use the bathroom. And asked me to leave my bike and to get her tiffin. I went out and while coming back I collected my ironed pair from our dhobi. When I said thanks to her, she replied me saying 'welcome'. You know I am teaching her English. She is learning a new word everyday. I felt extremely happy. And then I went home. My roomie ate her breakfast took the bike keys. She went out and came back. I asked her 'Did you forget anything?'. She said, 'yes, I forgot an important thing'. 'What?'. She gave me a hug and said 'Thanks dear! Thanks for everything. Wish me good luck. You are my well-wisher'. I felt like crying. I became emotional for her words. You know how good it would be to be loved?”
I don’t know whether he understood anything or not. I couldn’t read anything from his face. He just remained with the same expression from the moment she arrived.
She continued "Then since, I don’t have bike. I took the bus. It was jam packed. It was hard to stand also. But that conductor was amazing. He was singing old melodies. It was fun. I never felt that I have traveled one and half hour. While getting down I said 'Thanks’ to him. He felt happy for that and said ‘May god bless you my child'. Then I came out of bus and walked to my office. Meanwhile, rain started. I like rain. I like getting wet in the rain. Btw, did you see the rainbow at the time? It was beautiful with seven colors".
His face showed all the rainbow colors in his face. It showed that he never saw a rainbow in his life.
"Yesterday, I told you na Banti made some changes because of which some issue was coming. Banti told everybody that I did something wrong in my code. Even my manager scolded for me doing such a thing, yesterday. Today they sorted out the issue was in Banti's code. He felt ashamed of himself and felt shy to look at me. His hand was trembling and he said 'Sorry! I am really very sorry for making it a big mess' and I felt pity for him. I tenderly touched his hand....
[He is not listening now. He is hotter than me, now. I felt that he is radiating energy towards me--jealousy]....
And said 'Its OK. Don’t worry'. He felt happy and all our teammates went for lunch. We had a nice time. We cracked jokes on everyone of us and everyone enjoyed it. After lunch, Banti gave me a big 5Star. I felt extremely happy and meanwhile my manager came and apologized for his rudeness, yesterday. My joy has no bounds. And then I was coming in a rush to tell you all these things. One small boy came for begging. I checked in my purse, I have no change. I saw the 5star that Banti have given me. I took it out and he grabbed it at once. He ran away and came back. He kissed me on my hand"
She showed the spot on her left hand. Its exactly the spot on which Banti kissed her, on the other hand. Although he is not showing anything outside, I could understand how he is feeling now.
"You know! Life is wonderful. I love it. Everybody loves me. I love everyone. I love this world for being so nice to me."
And then he looked straight into her eyes. She felt a bit shy and looked down. He took her head in his hands and moved closer.
Bloody Earth! Why does it always rotate so fast? Hey! What happened to my language? This 'Santosh'(am) is infectious. Well, that is the story. I couldn’t see anything more. I will come back with a new story tomorrow.
If you still wanted to know what happened afterwards.. "Choosthoone undandi nirantara varta sravanthi TV9!!”
P.S:- This is dedicated to all santosh's in this world.
Names Courtesy :- Nuvvostanante nenodantana.
