Made By-Peshal
One day, a teenager goes to a Ghat, his face looks pale and he is sulking, something seems to trouble him. As he sits on the stairs and removes his shoes to dip his feet in the cool and relaxing water of ganga, for a second he forgets about everything and just feels like the flowing water, which is unstoppable. Suddenly the realization of having failed the college's entrance test dawned upon him, he had always dreamed of going to this college, his eyes moistened and he began to cry silently.
As he was crying a hand came on his shoulders, the person said, “what happened son?”. He turned back to see who this person was, he saw a sanyasi or at least that's what he appeared to be ,he wore a saffron colour dhoti with a saffron colour Kurta, he had a long beard with his hair being neatly tied in a bun. At first Rishab said nothing but eventually he told him about how he failed the entrance test and now his career was at stake.
All this time the sanyasi was quietly listening to him and after he finished, he said, “listen child you're young and have a large portion of life left ahead ,this is just the starting, further ahead you may get some trouble and some happiness, but just because of trouble you never leave the battlefield” suddenly Rishab interrupted and said as if offended, “you just took the path of being a sanyasi, you just escaped your problems ,how can you give me an advice like that?”. For some reason the sanyasi didn't look offended, instead he said, “who said I escaped from life and my duties, I had a normal life as anybody has , I went to college had a job, a family and two kids”, Rishab listened in awe, “after my social and moral duties were over and my children were up on their feet ,me and my wife took this path”. Rishab asked “where is she then?”, he replied “she died 5 months ago during a flood". Rishab replied "I'm sorry to hear that”.
The sanyasi finally said , “our earth is a speck of dust in this endless universe and we're even smaller than that speck of dust ,we come here for a short time and it is we who make this time worthwhile and make it count” ,with this final advice he left, never to be seen again.
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