Creative Wednesday: The Real Celebration


The Real Celebration
By S.M.

It was Durga Pooja celebration. West Bengal decorates itself as a bride just ready to get married. Decked in best of their clothes people throng the streets. The sound of Dhaak makes your legs shake and you come out of your house as if some divine force is pulling you out.

 Away from all this noisy crowd he was wearing sophistication at its best and was roaming with his girlfriend on the secluded street to enjoy nearness of his beloved. Car stereo at loudest with best of english songs. Suddenly he pushed brakes. An old man was standing by the side.

 Why? The festival is not for him? He is no sophisticated society then why he is away from the crowd. Rolled down the window shield he asked what happened? Gleamed old man rushed to the car “buy some flowers for madam please”. The old man was hungry since last three days. 

 He let the old man in his car and they went to a nearby restaurant for some food for the old man. Curious he sat with the old man to listen to his pains.

 His son is in States married to a south east asian girl working with him and they have kids too. The old man spent all his monies for his son’s studies and for sending him to US for the job and his son never looked back.

 We spend a lot on many celebrations. We spend enormous on luxuries and we forget our roots. This is no humanity. The celebrations are paper carnations. The sound of Dhaak feels drowned in heart breaking cries of such old men.

 Do the real celebration. Make your old ones happy. One day you will taste same waters.

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