Unfortunate Promoted

Have you ever loved someone so much you can give an arm for, not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?

You just cherish each and every moment spent with them. You just want time to stop when you are with them.

It was me, my little friend Mark and the silent sea.

I and Mark just made the days alive which spent together. He used to bark at me, chase me, and jump on me. Having a very fit body, hairy and tail perfectly curved; Mark was one of a kind, not having even a single muscle to be of waste!!!

Who doesn’t love adventures? We all do, right? But to me and Mark, adventure was a passion. Desire arises to go for a trek in midnight, we used to gather our stuffs and take-off for the adventure.

I do remember, once on a scooter boat, in a lake, at tremendous, Mark jumped in water and started swimming.

I stopped the scooter boat and I could feel him calling me to join the swim, and would compete me in race. What fun!

He was too lucky for me. I achieved great things in life when he was with me unless an ‘UNFORTUNATE PROMOTION’ led me down.

With great excitement, I informed Mark about my promotion. He also felt so happy, wailing his tail in excitement and running round about himself.

Higher salary, higher post, staff under me, a private cabin! A PERFECT LIFE anyone can dream of!!!

Days went on, I got busy in my work, no, wait, not work, I got busy with my DONKEY-WORK. Yes, not loads but tons of work at my table. I wished ‘time takes some time to rest’, so that I can complete my load in time. Childish thinking, isn’t it?

Paper work, computer work, documents, signs etc. in my office at mess. I often asked to myself, “The salary I am earning, do I have time to spend it? Am I really happy with my promotion?”

But then again continued with my labor work.

I forgot to talk about Mark for a minute, right? That’s the biggest mistake I ever did, I hardly spent time with him after the promotion. But who knows when can success can become a drug, we feel at our best but it can have an ill effect on our own selves.

By the fortune of God, I got holiday for a week and work was also less. But the change in Mark’s behavior was noticeable. I asked him about his grief, but he just took his face off me. But money makes a man blind; I didn’t see his grief and took it lightly.

The next day, I took him to a hill for an adventure. He felt bit encouraged and was happy. Hardly had we reached the summit when I got a call from my boss, ’Hey Mark, we have got an urgent meeting and it’s a deal of good bucks so I expect you to come in an hour.’

I began to rush for that deal, not thinking of Mark. But Mark just barked and barked at me all the way and suddenly jumped on me. ‘What the hell is wrong with you, Mark?’ I shouted at him. His heart fell in grief. He was just walking about and just I saw a rock falling from up of which Mark was unaware. I ran towards him and jumped, stretching out my hand towards Mark and pushed him and the rock fell on me arm. My arm was crushed under the mass and the pain was terrible. But to my astonishment, I couldn’t hear Mark, neither could I see him coz of the rock in front of me. However, I got my arm off the rock and looked around but no sign of Mark was seen. I cried, I shed tears of blood, ‘Mark, come back, I am very sorry. Please Mark, for God’s sake come back, I beg of you’. I cried my heart out, screaming out madly for Mark but couldn’t change the reality of missing him.

With the numbness in my broken arm, with my soul off my body, I walked home. ‘Money made me blind, I didn’t give time to my fellow, I was so dishearten’ I cursed myself. The pain in me, biting me all the time, it was consuming me but I was an impossible task for me to accept the reality.

Money can’t buy you happiness. What is the use of earning money if your closed ones are not happy by you!

And today, again at the same place which we used to spent,

It’s me………………and the silent sea.