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His hands froze as they reached the doorknob.His reluctance held him back,like a huge boulder tied to his back.Or maybe it was the weight of the bag slung over his shoulders,he couldn’t decide which. A few worldly possessions were in that bag,clothes,an ipod,shoes,a camera… And yet,he couldn’t shake off the feeling that he was leaving behind something. He mouthed a silent goodbye to Rover,nipping playfully at his feet.
He took a glance at the digital clock on the wall in the dark-2 AM, it said. It was time.
He turned the doorknob as silently as he could. One more step and he would begin his journey.
“Wait!”, the words hit him with the force of an express train. “You forgot something”, said the voice at the bedroom door he knew since before he was born. He turned back slowly and looked her in the eyes,questioningly. She crossed the short distance between them in three steps and held out a hand,dropping something shiny and silver into his hands.
“These are the house keys. You can always come back…”.

“Goodbye”,he said and turned before she could see the tears. And he stepped forward into the darkness.
He knew he would come back some day,but for now,his future beckoned,and he had to go…

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Where there is a will, there is a way….

17 words… That was all he had in front of him at the moment. After 8 hours of hard work and countless coffees later, all he had were these 17 words.
He laughed out loud enough to scatter the pigeons on his window sill. These words would have to do. “The Last Will and Testament” was the heading for what would be the most explosive document to break his current society’s spine and astonish everyone who knew about what was to come.
He had thought hard and long about it, spent countless nights wondering if it was the right thing to do.

“No, Mr W, how will you explain it to the superpower above, the one true God you believe in…? How will they ever learn? It is up to you to teach them. After that, it is up to them to apply what they have learnt. We can only hope they turn out well…”

came back these harsh words of his servant of forty years. That was enough to steel his resolve and make him sit on this computer today.

“I leave 400 million $ to charity. My sons are not my own.They belong to their vices”.

“That would teach them”,he hoped,nay,prayed.
As he signed the document, he could already see tomorrow’s headlines,

“Millionaire leaves heirs penniless”

A smile came over his lips as he eyed the gun on his table. His last and final act would bring his sons together,at last.

— Based on a story that could be true…

The End is near….

And so ends another year…2009! what did we see in this year that blew our hats away?
Nothing special, just the usual apathy, ignorance,indifference and even more interestingly, the same old boring routine that marks our everyday life for what it really is…an attempt to make something of ourselves that has gone horribly wrong, somewhere along the way…
As we gear up for another festive season around the corner(God, I’ll miss them next year,all of them on weekends…..damn!) we do the usual introspection and come up with the usual suspects- Time and Money.There’s not enough of both to last us our lifetime…
And so we end up rushing through our day, trying to save all the hours that we have saved up for what?So that we can rush some more?
And so, when this year ends, I have decided one thing.My resolution for next year is very simple. It is the end of my apathy, my ignorance of what truly matters – the time I give to myself and my family.
And so I say with full pride, the end is near… And there is going to be a new beginning. Happy New Year to everybody in advance!