The world rests on hope.

 

I had always heard from elders that the world rests on hope.

In childhood, when friends had expensive toys, I used to be tempted to see that they should be with me, and when I used to go to poor parents with this desire.  A hope was aroused by showing dreams of buying more expensive toys there and with the help of that hope, the sand of time was slowly awakened. Even that desire and that age were gone.

When we grew up, I wanted to get good clothes, shoes and a bike and phone for showing my attitude and royalty to friends. This time the matter was a bit complicated because this time the difference between promise and false hope was known, so this time when the parents hoped for better than that, then we came to insist that if all this was not found. I will leave the college. Because of this threat, when my parents felt that this bright lamp of my hopes might get angry with us and set our hut of hope on fire, then those poor people scattered their sleep to build the palace of our dreams full of ignorance and pride.

I could not contain our happiness seeing those wishes fulfilled, but the eyes drowned in the glare of that happiness could not see those torn old sarees of the mother, did not look at the collar of father's old shirt, the time on his face Wrinkles came before and to increase my pride, I had not noticed their weight decreasing day by day.

After all, I used to enjoy their hard earned money and also showed my girlfriend the princess world. Days had been passed and one day I got a job, the old parents were happy that our hard work finally paid off, they started distributing jellabiya to the neighbors.

few days later my princess also came home as my bride, whom we had built palaces of hopes with the hard earned money of the same old people, everything was fine but just in a month I realized that my salary not enough for four because the half-stomach food of two old men was costing a lot.  The cost of our princess's weekend plan was also going towards his cough and cold medicine, princess realized that it is very difficult to take responsibility for this big family of four people, either we separate our home or shift these old people elsewhere! 

Fed up with this daily problem, I told them their daughter-in-law's wish, that she gets tired of cooking for four people, she does not even get time to rest, she can go for a walk in a week and I had promised her father that I will keep her a princess, so we are going to shift separately. Poor old parents were trying to explain something with tears in their eyes, but in front of my princess's  beautiful face, there was no value for these wrinkled and hanging skins,.

the next day I bring the van and packed all the luggage and said good bye to those old people by convincing them to come on every weekend to see them. the old mother asked the old man with tears in her eyes, has our son gone away from us forever, will he not come back to live with us again, the old father heaved a sigh and said...… that the world rests on hope.

G.M. Sir