Rohit Forever

Drama Inspirational

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Rohit Forever

Drama Inspirational

The Speaking Tree

The Speaking Tree

7 mins
191


Day:-3


While everyone were enjoying the beats of drum, the chant of hymns and the steps of dandiya during the third day of Navratri, I with tearful eyes and a towel wrapped around my head got near a big tree in the middle of a forest away from my house. I climbed up the tree and finding a thick and strong branch I tied one end of that towel to the branch and the other end to my neck and jumped down to commit suicide by hanging from the branch but to my badluck as soon as I jumped down the branch broke and I fell down.


It's then when I heard a voice asking me, "O human what stupidity are you upto?"


I looked around and saw no one near after few moment I again heard the same voice asking me why was upto. I stood up and looked everywhere and finding no one around shouted, "who is it ? Why don't you come infront of me?"


Then the voice replied, "Oh human, I'm the tree from whose branch you were trying to hang yourself. Tell me what's the problem? what made you take this extreme step?"


I was startled by hearing that. I thought someone is playing prank on me. I went around the tree and looked upwards carefully through its branches but found no one there and looking at the tree asked, "You can speak?" 


The voice said, "Yes, I'm a speaking tree. Tell me your problem may be I can be some help to you"


"Oh leave it, you are just a tree how will you solve my problem."


"Oh man, If you think I can't solve your problem then just speak out the things that are bothering you. If you speak out what is in your heart, you will feel better and we both can come up with a solution to your problem."


"Actually I am deeply in love with a girl and she too loves me and we both want to get married as we can't live without each other"


"That's great, it's too difficult to get true love and a successful love life. You should be happy then what's haunting you?"


"I am the only child to my parents who had taken a lot of pain in raising me. Sacrificed a lot in their lives to give me all the happiness of this universe and always took great care of me"


"Hmm there is no one like parents. You must feel proud and at the same time lucky to have got such loving and caring parents. Are they against your marriage?"


"No, no they don't have any objection rather they said if I'm happy with that girl then they too are happy because at the end what matters to them is my happiness."


"I don't see any problem anywhere, then why are you trying to commit suicide?"


"The thing is that I love my parents and my girl equally and I can't live without them. If my parents are my heart another one is my mind, if one is my world another one is my life, if one is my breath another one is my blood.'


"You look to be a great son as well as a trustworthy lover too. But man where is the problem? I don't see any problem in loving both."


"The problem is that the girl when we decided to get married the girl kept a condition infront of me."


"What condition?" 


"She said after our marriage we have to live separately from my parents. She is saying that with my parents around she will not have any privacy and she can't spoil her young age taking care of my old parents."


"What about your parents? What they have to say in this?"


"They are saying that they are towards their end and only few years left in their life. They had lived their lives and now I should think about myself. They are asking me to leave them and live my life with the love of my life."


"Parents are always great, before thinking about themselves they always think about the happiness of their children. Now what's the problem, why don't you leave your parents and marry that girl and live happily with her."


"How can I do that? My parents are too old to take care of themselves and I can't leave them and live without them. At the same time I can't live without my love."


"Then why don't you talk to your girl and tell her what you like and make her understand ?"


"She doesn't want to listen anything. She keeps on saying either my parents or her. I gave a lot of thought on it and finally decided that I can't choose any one between the two so it's better I should die. You shouldn't have saved me, you should have let me die because with my death , the problem will get solved."


"So you think if you die then everything will get solved. With your death your old parents be happy , your love will understand what you wanted. Never, rather your parents too will die. Who else is there for them other than you. Have you ever thought about them, what will happen to them after your death. As far as your love is concerned she may cry for few days but after that she will marry someone else and live happily. "


"What should I do then? I can't live without her and I can't leave my parents either. Don't stop me, let me die."


"You fool what are you upto. The mother who carried you in her womb for almost 10 months sacrificing her nights and bearing all the pain, the father who took all the mental pain to take care of your mother indirectly taking care of you while you were inside your mother's womb. The parents who looked after you for 25 years , stood by you in all situations, gave you all the happiness, now forgetting all those things you want to leave them in pool of tears and commit suicide just for the love of a girl whom you know only for few years and also for that girl to whom your happiness doesn't matter anything. She is being selfish to say that she can't take care of your parents and want you to stay away from them but your parents are so sacrificing in nature that even though they know you are the only hope and support system of their old age still for the sake of your happiness wants you to leave them and live with the one whom you have choosen as your life partner. Oh human, parents are the only gift of god whose substitution you can never get in your lifetime. Tomorrow you will get married and have a child, just imagine when he will grow up and his love will do the same with you how you gonna feel then. As you sow so shall you reap. Coward are those who run away from adverse situations while brave ones face it with all might. Now it's you to decide, whether you will die leaving your parents living like dead bodies or will live to give them a life that they deserves."


"You just opened my eyes today. I was really a stupid to commit suicide. You have me the true lesson of life. We shouldn't run away from problems rather should face it with bravery. Parents love is only selfless love in this world rest are just for seeking something or the others from you. I would better leave that girl if she won't understand what I desire but I'll never leave my parents. You are not just a tree but a sage who enlightened my thoughts."


Saying this I left the place with a smile on my face. They say during Navratri Maa comes to your help and today I felt her presence in the form of that tree who gave me power, the divine energy to face the challenges of life. 


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