People, Cheat, Chance, Choice

One of my friend is having this status on her chat profile: “people don’t cheat by change, they cheat by choice”. It sounds weird at first instance just because, first it needs courage to put such status on wall and second whosoever is going to read this will imagine all sorts of tits and bits of life. Why people put such sentence on the wall which gives different picture altogether. Is it because He or She lacks the courage of speaking the truth on face or He or She belongs to the same genre of people which this line reflects, cheater people.

This is a story of a boy, whom I used to teach 3 year before. Today at 10:30PM when i was just being comfortable after having my dinner somebody knocked my door. This was pretty unusual for me because neither my family stay nearby nor I expect somebody to poke me at this period of time nowadays. I shouted from inside;”Kaun Hai” got no answer. I thought It might be water bottle man who use to supple water bottle to me or someone to whom I owe some dues. But the next moment I thought neither I ordered for the water bottle nor I owe someone any dues because Its 09^th of the month and I paid all the dues well in advance. I opened my balcony door to see who is so eager to meet me at this point of time. I saw a skiny boy having dark complexion wearing red t-shirt and a knee high jeans waiting to see me. At first glance I failed to recognise him and thought who the hell this creature is. Next moment boy told me I am Suraj. Who Suraj? You use to teach me 3 years before. My mind went into flashback. I started remembering those days, when I caught this guy in market begging for the plate of Chinese dumplings with his brother. Time has changed, he has also changed and became more thin and stylist having thick ring on his hand with some red and black auspicious threads.

What are you doing here at this point of time?

I came here to see you; this sounded weird to me because except my father nobody has ever given me a surprise visit and told that I came here to see you. I might be the last person on the planet earth whom people wish to see by chance.

The next question I asked; what do you do these days?

I work in a street hotel, wash dishes and blah blah some stories.

I smelled something fishy. He stuck like a chewing gum without any reason. I realized that He is just passing his time and trying to kill my time. He was making some stories about his families, work. My belief became stronger when he told that I want to study again. Unbelievable. I never found any boy, who wants to study, when he tasted the blood of money and that also 5ooo/- pm as he said. Though I said; “Ok! I f you want to study, then come tomorrow evening, properly dressed and washed. He left my placed and I thanked god.

I started doing my usual stuff. After 30 minutes or so I realized that I need to buy something to make a good coffee. I was planning to go to market to buy that. The moment I opened my door the scary moment was waiting for me.

A body was lying on my floor mat of the front door. God that was really scary.

Same guy was in deep sleep.

I woke him up and said; “what are you doing here?”

He replied; “I am waiting my one of my friend to come”....another lie.

I thought now its a high time to know the real issue. I called him in and asked; “Did you had food?”

No!

I found something in my fridge but there was nothing.

I gave him two Rusk to eat and he kept that in his pocket. He did not eat that.

Then I thought I will be disgraceful if I ll not give him something to eat. In the dilemma of cooking and buying food I chose later one and I took him to a restaurant and tell him to order whatever he wants. He ordered Shahi paneer and 3 nans. I was surprised to see him ordering 3 nans, but it was fine with me. After hearing his real situation that his father did beat him with press and he ran away from his house after the big fight. I told him to eat at the restaurant itself but he denied that offer and wanted to pack the food and wanted to consume at my place. For me It was fine because till that time I was feeling terrible for his situation. I took him to my place with food. On my way to my home he said his brother might be searching for him and he did not want to get caught.

I offered him a plate to eat and I just wanted to help him just by assisting some counselling. Later on I wanted to drop him to his place and also wanted to speak to his parents regarding the issue.

He finished 1 Nan and said; “I am done, my stomach is full now”

Then why the hell you ordered 3 nans. Idiot.

He finished food, rolled remaining nan for tomorrow. he asked a glass of water, which I gave him with all respect.

And then I started counselling him and made him agree to accompany him to his house and a word with his parents. I dressed like a gentleman, like a counsellor.

He took the remaining food and went down of my staircase before me,I locked my door and went down. I saw here and there there was nobody.

He ran away.

I followed his direction, but found nothing except a feeling that I have been cheated again. This reminded me my last relationship. A girl, some love, some care, some feelings and in the end the darkness in the “gali” where that boy ran away after delivering some fake stories, playing with my emotions, taking food for tomorrow and reminding me my ex-relationship.

People,Cheat, Choice and Chance. These are not just words. The moment you start thinking for goodness of the people, they cheat because, People are made up of convenience. The moment their level of convenience starts loosing they cheat, whether by chance or choice. But whether by chance or choice, they don’t leave either a chance (to survive) or choice (to believe) for us.