Happy Journey

In the world of competition, we literally forget to feel some precious moments in life. I am Dr. Bharathi, a typical Indian man who always runs behind success no for the position of first in life. I was literally like a Robot that was programmed with the instructions of society. But when I was studying in 9th grade an angel came into my life. Her name is Sara. She was literally a carefree person. She usually does what she thinks. In fact, she is the one who brought a smile to my life. The one who taught me to enjoy myself and accepted me as who I am. We both started to become close and she meant everything to me in my life. We use to crack jokes during classes and create unlimited memories during our school days. But as I completed my 12th grade I chose medicine and went to Thanjavur for my higher studies and after some days due to some technical issues our contact was missed. And now it's been 10 yrs. One day I received an invitation to my friend Ria's marriage but due to some important work in my profession, I couldn't attend it. So, I visited her after the marriage and came to know that Sara had completed Engineering and worked in Bangalore. And I went in search of her. I was searching the whole city and finally found that address which Ria gave me and I was eager to meet her. But when I reached there, I came to know that Sara had vacated the place and went to some other city regarding her work. And the old lady near there gave her recent address which is in Chennai near my present working place and I was screaming with joy and rushed to Chennai. When I get ready to visit her I called Ria to join me to give Sara a surprise. Because of the excitement in meeting her, I felt like my watch got repaired because even one minute looks like an hour to me.

On my way, there was a crowd blocking my way and after crossing the huge crowd I was about to reach her place. But before reaching Ria called me asked me to visit my hospital immediately. As a doctor, in spite of personal feelings for my friend decided to visit my hospital to serve my profession. And there awaited a huge shock. There I saw Sara lying in the operation theatre. And came to know that she was met with an accident a few hrs before. Her treatment was going on. She was injured severely. Her consciousness was not stable. To keep her in conscious everyone around me started to speak to her. After a few seconds, I went near and hold her hand tightly as I use to do before when I get fear my exam results during the paper distribution. And a drop of my tears rolled down on her hands. I began to scold her for not being with me these many years and wept like a baby. To my surprise, she opened her eyes slowly and smiled at me. I and my team gave the best treatment to cure her. I cared for her like a mom and didn't move from her even for a minute for her speedy recovery. But after 15 days, I received an approval letter for my research from Harvard University which was my dream. But I was literally not interested to go the US leaving my truthful friend in this condition. And also there may be a chance of not meeting her again. As there will be no chance of contacting her if I go abroad. But somehow Sara found my letter asked me to move forward in my career. She told that our friendship was real and that will bring us together again. Now you go and focus on your research. And the last word I heard before leaving her is Happy Journey.