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Vadiraja Mysore Srinivasa

Drama Inspirational

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Vadiraja Mysore Srinivasa

Drama Inspirational

The Appointment

The Appointment

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I decided that enough was enough; I have been postponing setting up of the appointment, god knows, for ages! Somehow, I just could not muster enough courage to put it into motion. I have read reams about how I can benefit from just one appointment with him and can virtually achieve anything that I want to; all those goals that I have been only dreaming of, the book I wanted to write and publish, the places I wanted to see oh, I can go on all day!


People talk about the so called ‘bucket list’ that exists in almost everyone’s life; in my case you can definitely substitute the bucket with a large drum as I have such a long list of accomplishments to achieve, which I am sure, won’t fit in a bucket!

Honestly, I have been searching for answers to hundreds of questions that bombard me, trying to find my way through the labyrinth called life, confused most of the time. But every time I decided to do something and went ahead with my action, the actual results were nothing but despair and heart break!


I have read somewhere that there is an answer to every question in this world; alas, the person who wrote it, very conveniently forgot to mention, where one can find it! 


After meeting and talking to several learned persons with wisdom written all over their face – evident from the grey hair and wrinkled skin - and enough experience to bring revolutionary changes in any body’s life, I was told that there is only one way; fix up an appointment at the earliest!

I took courage, opened my laptop and kept it on my desk. I sat there starting at the not yet opened laptop wondering how and when the appointment should be fixed and most importantly, where should I meet him?


Should I go outdoors to a greener and calm environment, a hill station or, should I restrict to the brick and mortar concrete walls, may be over a cup of hot tea in a secluded hotel? I am also worried whether this experiment would actually succeed, as suggested by the so-called experts not to speak of the consequences or aftereffects I may have to face later!


After sitting and staring for ages at my laptop, I finally decided to open the word file and made notes as I am averse to reading my own handwriting which to say the least, is unreadable at best; there were instances when I called my wife to read out to me what I had written!


After several false starts and wastage of stationery – as I feel comfortable in printing and then editing rather than do it on line – finally, I managed to list out what I felt, the most important points to be discussed and tasks that have to be completed and of course, a dozen or so questions for which I needed definitive answers.

 

I got up at the middle of night virtually sweating from top to bottom; oh god, there were several items which didn’t strike me while I was sitting in front of the lap top, I thought. So, once again I crawled out of bed room – least my wife gets up and start shouting at me – and opened the lap top and typed without making sound and added few important items to the to do task.


Thus, I set out to fix the appointment to meet the most important person who has been eluding me almost all my life and the one who can really help me find answers to almost all my questions.


I sat at the table and put out the printed sheets in front of me in chronological order. I glanced at the papers, a last-minute check, you might say and then looked up.


I kept staring him and he appeared to look through me.


The large mirror fixed to the wall reflected image of the most important person whom I was evading all these years and one person with whom I desperately wanted to fix up an appointment!


Me!


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