MEDIOCRITY

An average man withers away his entire life roughly from –HOME TO OFFICE AND OFFICE TO HOME. This becomes his regular hectic schedule and he tends to be too busy running all through his days. He won’t get time to sit quiet in solitude, watch the pale silvery moon or walk in the woods. He can’t make the time to attend the ceremony of his far related cousin sister. Hardly does he know the true colour of the morning sun. He gobbles down his breakfast just a few minutes before his office time, his eyes constantly fixed to his old pale, faded watch that he might have “inherited” as a small fraction of his dowry during his marriage. He is too restless to sit for long and listen to his groaning mother and nagging wife. The fixed stars in the firmament seem to twist and unfix their fate.

Such sorts of people of mediocrity would set off from their homes early in the morning, leaving their children sleeping. When they hastily return late at night, they find their children sleeping. Interestingly, they give a lame excuse that they do all this just for them. One day, their children go away to some foreign land forever, leaving their parents to sleep alone in the BIG house.

RANVIR K PANDEY

1ST B.A. (HEE)