When Feelings Went For Sale

The market was set up the way it should have been but this time there were some attractive offers. Every 2 kg of happiness would provide you with half a gram of desire and on purchase of anger, its management classes were also given. Everywhere there were feelings up for sale and they were stored in sacks and bags of various sizes. Human, being a complex businessman was not qualified enough to sell feelings so altogether a new species was introduced namely, Neumans, which comes from neutral and humans. As the name suggests they were completely free of charge. Adding to their qualities was them being nameless,formless and colorless.

The market was divided into positive and negative sides. On the positive side, where all the happy and cheerful feelings you could think of (it's funny how feelings are used to categorize feelings). On the other end was the negative side there were all the traumatic, tragic and harsh feelings you could imagine.

All the feelings were stacked together, neatly in different tents, which were arranged in neat rows, 6 in each column. The place was clean, green, and open and everybody minded their own business. The wind being naughty would sometime spill the sack full of anger or sometimes the bag of happiness got toppled but the Neumens worked with utter patience and very skillfully did the needful.

I was observing everything from a distance and suddenly felt an urgent desire for happiness. Hoping to get something useful, I immediately rushed to the market, checking my wallet on the way, when suddenly I was confronted with a board which said:-

"All the feelings whether fresh or stale,

should not be hurt as they are not for sale."

Probably, living among feelings, even Neumans have developed into Human