Surety Assured
The clouds gathered, darker than usual. Heavy one its gonna be,I thought.I could see clearly that beyond these last patches of trees it were the plains. Scattered vegetation of bushes, small shrubs and a few small ones not big enough to be called trees, none which could let us from getting soaked in the upcoming rain. But the old man was still walking as if the rain didn’t matter to him. I was surprised. We didn’t have umbrella. Yet the man was ignoring the last trees that could let us not get soaked.
“The clouds have gathered.”I started. He turned and looked into my eyes, which evidently told me to finish what I started. I continued “I think we should stop here for a while”
Old man smiled “Why?”
“Why!!! Its going to rain. We’ll get soaked if we get out into the plains. There are no trees out there”
"Its not that always gathered clouds promise rain."
“Good philosophy. But won’t help when it rains” I said
“Why dont you believe that it won’t rain?” He asked smiling.
“My believing cannot change anything.”
Now he smiled and asked “What if we stop here and it doesn’t rain? What if the clouds just roll out after a long time? Its evening already.” I didn’t have an answer for that. He now continued “ Do you think staying here will not soak you? What if it rains all night and we are stuck in here!”
I was out of answer,now regretting to have put forward the topic.I felt his eyes so sharp,as if piercing mine.He turned and walked.Then he continued talking to me, his eyes fixed in the horizons as ever “Sometimes we think we are sure of what is yet to come,even when we are not assured So,what you had was the fear of getting soaked.First of all its only rainwater.It wont kill you.But be it the fear to whatever.Why should you surrender!!!You have to move on.Nothing is surety assured.Once we are aware that we are safe nowhere you will just not surrender to such fears.Even I cant assure you we wont get soaked.But stopping is not the right decision to take at this point”
“I have a doubt,then” I said
“Not sure if I can clear it” he said in a tone from which I could make out that he was smiling.
“That doesn’t matter.If it was that I reached here and I feel inside that I should stop here.you know,its hard to explain.something like an intuition…”
He stopped walking and turned to me,eyebrows in a questioning manner “Is that why you really asked me to stop?”
“No”
“If it were I would have stopped.Intuitions are God sent to take you to the right place at the right time. Never ignore them.Reasoning fails at many places in life.But intuitions don’t fail unless you fail them.Earlier when you asked about stopping I asked you ‘why’ to make sure if it was an intuition. You were just reasoning.”
“Hmmm…Or was it an intuition?Am not sure.My legs are aching too.I think It might have been an intuition.So can you just take it an intuition and pause?”I asked with a mischievous smile
He said nothing but smiled and slowly placed his backpack down…
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Hari
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