Last two days brought me some typical sorrows in my life. Yesterday started with a brilliant sunshine. As usual I reached my college and went for booking a ticket with a senior of mine because I was a novice for buying ticket through middleman. Completing the formalities we were about to leave the cabin and "Bang", My senior got a head on crash on A.C. machine box and knelt in pain immediately. Sooner it started bleeding. We did a lot to stop it and took him to take the first aid. My senior only said to me with a pain painted face, smiling, " Whenever you are with me, a bloody incident happens". Behind this comment, there is a sequel what I will write anytime later. This is how the events started.
After some times I had been scolded badly as I tried to clean up the windows of an instrument without knowing that the liquid(Ethanol) creates permanent scratches in it.
In the afternoon, I went to our Academics office and came to know that due to their noble pace of work we will get our Scholarship at least two more months later. It is tiring enough as we have not get our scholarship of last 10 months or I can put it in this way; I joined here for 16 months and paid for 6 months till now.
But the last blow was yet to come. When returned to my hostel, got the news of demise of my friends mother. It was a complete shock. In the afternoon, he sent me a email saying he was leaving then. So I had a portray about him as a happy boy returning home after a long time along with the satisfaction of his career in his beautiful glittering eyes. He always stood beside me; in any condition and I am such a poor fellow that I could not stand beside him in his utmost need. What a pathetic situation.
With that, that day is passed. Then came today morning. After breakfast, I took a different path than my usual way to my department to meet a friend of mine. On the way, I found a wounded bird, fell in ground, fighting for surviving from the death attacks by a pair or crows. I kept those predators away by posing of throwing stones at them and went for my friend to talk. While returning with the help of a kind watchman of our institute, I managed to wrap the bird with a cloth so that it would not be able to scratch my hand. It was, although totally unable to move, looking ferocious as if the whole surrounding is the enemy. Just when I picked the creature to my bosom to soothe it, one of our Professors was passing by. He gave me a phone number(022-28888888) where I can get information of animal care organizations. I called them. They said that they will be sending information in my mobile and email. Just then, two other message came and my mobile inbox is full. I stated deleting those unwanted texts to get the information I needed at any cost. At that instant, I thought and also our professor suggested that I should take the bird to my hostel. So I took the bird to the hostel mess and asked my friends to bring some food and water for that wounded fellow. On the way, I was imagining(I am a good day dreamer) that after healing of its wounds I will be walking on the road and it will be seating in my shoulder. It was breakfast time and seeing it a little crowd gathered and a person identified the bird as a Cuckoo and also said they always have a battle against crows and for what the current scenario. The bird was suddenly started gasping. I took water to its beak but in vein. It was unable to drink or it. I felt the last death gasps of the striving cuckoo well within my hands as the same I felt for my pet dog died in front of me. Its eyes got half closed and it stopped twisting its body and flapping wings. Slowly its neck got loosened and confirmed its ultimate journey. I took the bird, with a friend and an elderly gardener buried it. At the very moment, all the details sent by the Helping Organizations reached in my mobile. This is how it ended.
I have an exceptional power of forgetting. But I am also not sure how long it will take to wipe out these two days from my grey cells. Hope it will be soon enough.
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