Shikha Talreja

Drama Classics Thriller

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Shikha Talreja

Drama Classics Thriller

The Last Letter

The Last Letter

2 mins
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Deep down diving in the depth of thoughts you try to foresee future or alter your past." One such incident triggered our postman, Mr. Raghu too. Riding his bicycle to the village down the street was an experience he could never forget. With the whistling wind a letter from his hefty case tried to reach its destination on his own. As if it was the indication of an urgent call. This filled Raghu with curosity to peep in and find out that what it could be! But he was a man of rules and this deed would have been a sin to his conscience. He decided to take this letter to the receiver first and foremost. The destination was there and as he was walking in, his feet got heavy. A dying father's last letter from his son who pleaded Raghu to read it. To take these golden words in his grave as the earning of his entire life was his last wish. He started thinking, "What would have my son wrote in it? May be his words would have fallen short for the sacrifices I made for him. Oh! May be he would have mentioned how I slept empty stomach after contending his hunger or may be the time when he was sick and I was awake for a fortnight. Who says you take nothing with you when your soul departs? I would surely take what I have earned, along with me when I will take the heavenly abode. My ears can't wait to listen what I have harvested."

Well eventually, it seems that it was destined for Raghu to read the letter. To his astonishment the words were few. "Sign your will, before you depart", it said. He requested Raghu to write a note mentioning that, "All what I had, I invested in you, the only valuable in my will is 'YOU' I announce you as a sole owner of your destiny from now."

Raghu with sobbing heart wrote the note, the dying man signed this will and the very moment bought the chirping birds to silence. The sun dropped his head and the darkness took the man's soul on the unended voyage.

The moment before reading the letter the man was foreseeing his future but when that moment passed he thought to alter his deeds done so far. Something triggered Raghu after this moment of despair. May be now his mind was the battlefield for the inner turmoils of future and past.


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