Success

If I only had listened to my instincts, I wouldn't have deprived myself of real happiness. Today, success seems like a white elephant and I feel alone in this busy world.

On the death bed, she was fighting with blood cancer for six months. As I touched her face, she smiled with feeble lips and breathed her last in my lap. Being flabbergasted, I couldn't say a single word for Sampurna.

Sampurna is my childhood friend. Though she had always claimed me to be her chum, my avaricious eyes had preferred success to emotional relations. Like a selfish guy, I had not bothered for her love and hankered after success. To earn name and fame, though I had worked hard, I had killed all the worthy emotions. I had never accepted her proffer of love, but in spite of my negligence, she had never hated me, her profound love had never diminished.

One day, I had picked up my phone to receive a call and a voice had come, 'Hay Sushant, this is Sampurna, can you meet me once, I know you have no time, but I want to see you for the last time, I don't know how long will I survive, do come, do come?

'Taking permission from my cruel heart, I had reached her home, but couldn't listen to a single word from her. The sky had fallen on me and as I had closed my eyes, brutal tears had trickled to mock at my madness, regret, and success.