One Page Story - My Failure Story

      

      I keep on thinking about what story to tell for this One Page Story week and to be honest I really could not think of any. But you know, after buying a domain and getting serious about the blog, I really cannot afford to skip yet another week without posting any of the stories. So what to put up with?. What can I fill the week with?. That's when I came up with the idea of telling a true story, yeah inspired from the incidents that happened in my life.

      My story might be inspiring or boring to the death. To those who find it so boring, I am so sorry but I'll try to keep as good as possible. 

      It happened in June 22. Yeah on Thalapathy Vijay's b'day. The day started happily, with posting status of Vijay's b'day. But in the night, the results of my semester exam came. You know what, even if you have 4G, 5G network, you cannot view Anna University result that easily. I strived so hard to view my results but I cannot get it through. My friend viewed it for me and sent the results. Yeah I got failed in two subjects. This is a small prologue to my story, the failure story.

      The night I ran into the toilet and cried. You might ask why is it so much for just failing in two subjects. Whatever the reason I say, some might still feel it's nothing. I'll tell you what. We all admire the statue but only the statue knows what it goes through, how much it got hit by the hammer and weapons. But it's all  the beautiful statue in the end after all.

      Yeah back to my story. The reason why the arrears of just two papers affected me that much was that it was the last semester. I had placed in a company and the story of that placement requires yet another one page story. The company had laid some ground rules. I should get passed in the final semesters. No more exams I should attend and if I did, I cannot get the job. Now my job's in the stake. I broke my parents' heart so hard that cannot be brought together. It really broke when some ladies from the streets gave sweets to my mom saying that their sons had became an engineer. She used to swallow her saliva, came up with words like, 'Yeah my son also got passed but with little marks'. Nothing can explain her deep tears, what she had gone through, yeah one One Page Story cannot present her devastating state. Even my brother felt a river in his heart, though he tried to be supportive, encouraging me each and every day.

      Yeah, my father, most of the times so annoying, like every sons in the whole world feel about their dad, now behaved like I never expected. I was terrified to the soul when I said to my dad about my results. What he said was truely amazing, atleast for me. He just asked me to put revaluation and went, yeah, only that. He didn't utter a word thereafter. After applying for the revaluation, he even said one thing that was rock written in my heart. He said, "Things are going to get difficult hereafter, son. Hold on to it. Your mom and even me might say hurting words out of anger or something but don't lose your hope. Big things are going to happen. Trust me". They, my parents, made this so easy, which ironically turns out to be the most difficult thing to face. Yeah, I am not a good son to them, after all.

      Every day, I used to go up the terrace, used to sit in one corner, and cry and cry out loud till I get sick out of it. One can see the Ganesha temple while sitting at that corner. Funny thing was that I used to converse with God. It's really is hilarious thinking retrospectively but then, back in those days, it was a real pain in the heart. Yeah, out of crying, my chest will get pain, my eyes burned, like a bloodshot, used to get cold often. The fear of  what might happen if I failed in revaluation burnt me alive. I, even cannot cry out load because if my parents hear that they would feel more which will make me uncomfortable.

      One day, the August 14th, the most unforgettable day, I got up, hoping something great would happen that day. I really don't know why or how, but I got that gut feeling I might hear some good news. My dad went out then, to meet my brother and to buy some things he needed in the hostel. Out of the blue, I took out the newspaper to read and somehow, I ended up reading the horoscope section. I never used to believe horoscope until then. I really don't know my sign but I know my mom's. It's Leo. It says that she was going to feel proud of her children as they were going to excel in their academic results. That was it, the smile after months, popped in my face, a little though, but totally worth it.

      That evening, I was lying down, thinking about the future, but somehow, I extended my hand to reach my phone, opened the results portal. I was shocked to see it taking time to load the page. It will never take time to load if the results wasn't publish but it did. Normally, for seeing revaluation results, the portal will be worst, consuming a hell lot of a time to view the results. But, now it was quick. It take less than a minute to view my result.

     I went to my mom, opened the newspaper, and asked her to read her horoscopes' outcome. She was blinking and yet read her sign. She was smiling and then sensed my smile. "Was it, you?", she said.

    I smiled and said, "Yeah mom, I did it, I passed. I became an Engineer". She, all of a sudden went to living room, kneeled down, and cried with happy tears all over his face. I immediately called my dad who was on his way to home. He was in his bus, but shouted forgetting himself that he was in his bus when I told the news. When I called my brother, he said, "Now you got to know why you failed?". "Yes", I replied.

    Yeah, I know why I failed, not because I lack talent in writing my exams. It was because the head weight I used to have. Those two and half months taught me a lot, killed my head weight and even decomposed it. I used to say to everyone that when life gives you hard times, place your ear carefully. It is trying to teach you something that will make you a better person.

    That day's sleep was so much precious. I slept like I never slept before in my entire life, full of smiles and happiness, but what I treasured was that the lessons I learnt. The next day I woke up was the independence day. Yeah, it really was.

     It was celebration after that. My friends even ordered a huge cake, captioning,"Welcome Back Engineer, Seenu".Yeah it was too much but they really missed me all those days and that was their celebration of getting me back with smiles and all. Thereafter, I received my offer letter in two weeks, and after a month, exactly on September 25th, I joined the first day of my job. There was a two month training in my company and know what, taking back the lessons that I learned from that two and half months, I even got the "Best Innovator Award" of the batch in my training period. I even got the most amazing manager who was really kind. I got the project where I could learn so much things. On my first salary, I bought dresses to all my family members on Diwali day. My Uncle's son, who is a KG kid, danced like a maniac when I bought him dress. I even taped it which was such a splendid scene to watch on. My mom used to describe those scenes, saying that I had reminded the days of her with her dad. What more I have to say, life was like 'Hakkuna Matana' after then.

    What I was trying to say, is that no matter how much you try, life is going to hit you hard. Doesn't matter if you hit it back because in the end nobody could hit as much as life could. The process of success is that you learn to get hit, learn to face bruises with tearful smiles, have some guts to learn from mistakes, and still move on, drag on your whole might, even though you get hit. That is how you succeed in life. If there is a complete night darkness, learn to sit tight in the moon light, the light of hope for there is a sure sun rise waiting for you, ready to throw you overflowing light and happiness. Yeah buddies, sit tight . . . . . .