Amay's blog

“ Winning gives us satisfaction. Losing makes us a learner.”    Life is competition. Oh! Sorry. We made it a competition. If you don’t do well in life, you are surely going to suffer in life. Let’s say: Without winning you land nowhere. I heard once, life of a winner is better than life of a loser. Many people agree with this statement but I don’t feel it is true.   Of course a winner gets a lot of attention, love and appreciation, which a winner deserves. On the other hand, a loser is depressed, gets ignored by people and no one actually understands a loser. But life of a loser is still better than life of a winner because a loser knows the importance of winning and at the same time he knows the disadvantages of being a loser. The story doesn’t ends here. Winning and losing is much more than what you think it is. While the winner is celebrating his win, the loser is working hard to develop his skills, and knowledge for the upcoming competition. The loser...

Year - 2007 After a tiresome journey, we were about to reach the place I hated the most. When we came here last time, I was a small kid. I don’t have any memory of that time and I am not interested to take any such pain to remember it. I only know that I can’t create any memory here. I have to just adjust for few days before we head back. I plonked my bag on the platform and read the name of the platform in my mind – Firozpur (my native place). Our relatives or people only known-to-my-parents came to received us at the railway station. When we came out of the station, I instantly liked the place. It was not that bad what I thought of! I expected plain ground where children would be playing cricket, and crop fields all around. But I was wrong because the town was developing. The city was in construction and few apartments where already established. As our car moved, I explored more. I wasn’t disappointed until I entered a way which consisted of only plain fields. At the...

Here's the final part of the story: Happy Reading! PART THREE - BEFORE DEPARTURE “Empty mind is a devil’s workshop”, my wife always said looking at me. I had nothing to do. I was almost lost in my own world of emptiness. My decision of retirement was . . . actually troubling others. My presence was a problem to others so, I decided to open a small shop of toys. I used the amount of my fixed deposit to set up a small shop. I always liked kids though my own son hated me for staying near him. Six months later, I realized my shop was running on loss and unfortunately, I had to close it. Whatever decent investment I made to set up and run that shop was now no more. My wife got one more reason to blame me. Her words turned more acidic . . . after getting informed about my failure. I thought she would show sympathy towards her defeated husband but, she did not. I did not get any support from her. That defeat stayed with me for a long time, maybe I am still not over it...