A New Horizon

Once again, a relapse, once again admission to a treatment center, once again a painful confined treatment. Bharat Saha thinks and thinks. At a point in life, he had all pleasures. He was born in a well-to-do family, what he would want, he would get. He was well-rounded. He had an awesome educational career, had amazing relations with his kith and kin, had a beautiful benevolent girlfriend, Archana. In his dream, he would cherish the ambition to be a doctor and serve the society with his exquisite skills and labors. He was a serious student and shone in Higher Secondary and Joint Entrance Examination. While studying the first year in MBBS, he also stole the attention of his professors with his supreme skill and talent. So beautiful moments he had spent with his girlfriend’s hills, beside the lagoons! For him, they are all wonderful souvenirs. When he goes down his memory lane, he gets attacked by the euphoria of all those and gets obsessed with the nostalgia. But alas! now Bharat has nothing of all these, he is exhausted, he is totally bankrupt. The chronic addiction to alcohol has stolen him of everything - love, trust, faith, relationships, career and all. Now, his friends have wonderful careers, excellent families, warm relations with others and bright futures. Bharat has nothing. Seven consecutive years he had spent in between the walls of the treatment center. Society hates him. He is a burden to his family. Once the persons he has helped so much, now ignore him. Even from him, Archana, his Archana maintains distance. Bharat has nothing to do except looking at the ceiling of the treatment center lying on its floor. Bharat sobs in pain cry in agony.

Bharat doesn't understand his family loves him, wants his good or hates him, wants him to punish. He doesn't understand this is a long treatment or prolonged harassment. The quality of the food is bad, the staff of the employees isn't well-behaved. For long and long, he gets detached from his family, his loved ones. He cries and nobody listens. Nobody looks at his pain, cares about his crisis. Sometimes, he thinks the management of the treatment center only knows money and nothing. From this chain of treatments, he has known that he is an alcoholic. He has a chronic disease of alcoholism. He knows the pros and cons of the anonymous program but can't apply it in the outside world. Henceforth, he is not able to get clean and get collisions in the journey of his recovery. He is spending now his seventh year constantly in Sishunag Roy's Health Foundation. He cries and cries in his pain. He prays to God from the core of his heart. But alas, nobody listens. Mr. Roy convinces him again and again that this time he must stay clean. He consoles him that this situation will pass, he will be reunited with his family. He will get love and attain respect. But Bharat sometimes thinks that they are all false consolations, don't have any value. He doesn't get convinced of the fact that a chronic addict like him can have any future.

Bharat almost sobbed in joy when his father discharged him from the treatment center. Now, he has known the fact that previously he had misunderstood Mr. Roy completely. Like him, Mr. Roy is also an alcoholic. He has his own rights and wrongs in his character, has an unforgettable painful past of alcoholism but now he is successful in his struggles. He has got a new life, got back his family and achieved respect and reverence for many others. If Mr. Roy has been able to do so, Bharat will surely able to do such a difficult job. From no position, he must come back with more confidence, more forbearance, more patience, and more success. He is not sure that he will get his Archana back in his life or not, he is quite certain that if he follows the right path, he will surely find his true love one day. Mr. Arup Sharma, one of his closest fellows in the rehab, has told him one day that the treatment center is like an incubator. It blesses an alcoholic with the grace of a new life. When one alcoholic gets and stays clean, he enters a new horizon of life - a horizon of limitless possibilities, unlimited love, countless respect, immeasurable bliss, boundless happiness and an ocean of success. He explores this horizon with his infinite potentials and the inner confidence which soars high and higher and with God's grace. Bharat Saha regains the belief in himself.

Gateman Mr. Gargya Salunke finally opens the gate. For the first time, after many a year, Bharat gets the fresh open air and takes the full breadth. Finally, he has been successful to get out of the chamber of the Centre. Upon him, falls the sparkling sunshine from the clear azure sky. He steps toward the ' new horizon'.