About the story: To tell the importance of not practising negligence during covid19, here is a small trial by telling a short story to you(the reader). Hope you enjoy this story.
There is a girl named Sarayu. She is very funny and lazy and furious as well. She has a boyfriend and also a best friend. Her boyfriend’s name is Nikhil and her best friend is Aditya. Sarayu and Aditya are studying engineering in the same college. While Nikhil is doing his law in law school.
One day, Nikhil plans to go out and invites Sarayu to come out with him, but she refuses because of covid19 fear and tells Nikhil to be extremely careful. She says “You are the only hope for my life like the north pole star for Sailors.”
She also warns him to put on his mask and maintain social distance and sanitize his hands regularly.
It is a warm night. Sarayu is sleeping on her bed and suddenly her phone rings. The truecaller name shows that it is a call from Yama Dharmaraja from Yamapuri. She blanks for a second, picks the call and says
“I am sleeping, just call me later to play pranks” and she ends the call.
Then Yama Dharmaraja calls her again and now with a hesitating voice she says, “Are you serious, you wanna irritate me? Why are you calling me again and….! “
Then he replies “This is not a prank call and I am not here to irritate you and I have very important news for you.”
She sarcastically replies “Oh No, is it that important to me? yeah carry on Mr.X”
Then he replies “I am not Mr.X and I am Yama Dharmaraja known as God of death(GOD).”
She yawns and says “It is not a children’s play and we are not even actors in it, so please let me sleep.”
GOD says “You are a small kid for me and I will make something that will help you to believe that I am GOD.”
She asks GOD “why should I even spare you? You are making fun at midnight with a girl, I guess this is not good at all and tomorrow I will give a complaint in police.”
GOD says ” You’re going to suffer if you don’t listen to me, so to make you believe I will remove power in your home after you count 3 from 1.”
She starts counting 1 2 3. Then the power goes off. She starts to think that he may be GOD. Then suddenly she tells GOD, “Even being out of the home, by removing the fuse I can remove the power, and first of all I don’t have any amount in my bank to give you an amount.”
Then GOD says “I will transfer 1lakh without your number.
She says “I don’t need any amount.”
GOD asks her “In what way shall I make you believe that I am GOD? Can I tell your date of birth?”
She says “ok”
GOD tells her”18th July 2000 is your date of birth and 1lakh is already transferred into your account”
She gets grief from shock! But no message on her handset, because it is 12’o o’clock midnight and there is a break of 1hr of bank transactions. She is doubtful now, because she has no proof that 1lakh is credited into her account. But GOD has no clue about the closing hours of the bank. So, he left the call.
It’s 5 a.m. and there is a cool breeze with fog outside. Then again Sarayu’s phone starts ringing. It is from GOD’s Assistant Chitragupta. Now, Sarayu gets angry. She picks her phone, GOD says “Recheck the bank balance.”
She does the same, it is increased by 1lakh and she should think once because of the huge amount in her bank.
She asks GOD “Why should I believe in you?”
GOD says “You are a very good devotee to my father and he told me to give you a chance.”
Then with the grief of shock, Sarayu asks GOD “Who is your father?”
GOD replies “Lord Surya is my father.”
She asks God “Who is Surya? I didn’t even listen to the name in my life! Please don’t play with me. I am taking a maths periodical test. I need to study for it. Please leave me, sir.”
GOD replies “SURYA means Sun whom you wake up to see daily in the morning and tell your problems.”
Sarayu asks God, “What is happening here? Who is SURYA? Who is GOD? Who is Chitragupta? I need to have clarity on the scene.”
GOD Replies “I am the God of death. And I am the son of Lord Surya. Now I have exciting news about a lifeline. But you need to believe me so that I can explain to you the news in detail and what you need to do about it. For the first thing, I need to make you believe that I am GOD. So what things I need to do for constructing belief in myself.”
Sarayu replies “You are God of Death, I need to believe this word. But how can I do so? Because of someone calling me through a private number and just named it as Yama Dharmaraju in the true caller. These cheap pranks do not work properly. Please let me study for my Test.”
GOD replies “I am here to give you a wonderful chance but you are telling
me to stop everything.”
Sarayu gets angry and replies “Well, it’s enough now, it’s the last chance and I will no more care for you. You need to bring me a tiffin of Maggi” (Inner Sarayu voice says “Indian mothers will not let the flour of dosa waste easily unless a big thing happens to that flour.”)
Sarayu freshens up comes to the kitchen to have her tiffin and her mom gives her Maggi to eat. She says “Ma, what happened to dosa flour, actually you had planned to make dosa for tiffin, but why Maggi is made for tiffin Ma?”
Her Ma replies “Dosa flour is rotten and it’s not good to eat.”
Sarayu runs to her and calls the number. Yama Dharmaraj laughs after listening to her breathing sound.
She asks for a holiday and Yama says “Granted!”
A message pops out in the class group – “Today is a holiday due to some strike.”
She eagerly asks “What is happening my lord? Why the Lord Yama Dharmaraj is speaking to me and saying that it is because of worshiping lord sun.”
GOD says “Listen to me my sweet girl. You are a charm and one of my father’s favorite devotees. I am here to offer a boon. That boon is conditional and all you need to know is the condition.”
Sarayu says “Why is boon offered to me?”
GOD says “This boon is given because of your trueness in love and faith in friendship and the boon is a curse for the other. So, you have a boon to save one of your dear ones.”
Sarayu eagerly asks “Who?”
GOD replies “You need to make your heart bolder. In this pandemic time, I am having a full day of duty and it is only because of human’s carelessness and you humans can’t even follow the rules that are given by the doctor just to protect themselves, this negligence has led to the death of many people, but even Indians have lost only a little. You have a friend and his name is Nikhil.”
Sarayu replies “he is my boyfriend.”
GOD asks then “What is your best friend’s name?”
Sarayu replies “He is Aditya, my lord!”
A rapid-fire from GOD to Sarayu
GOD : “Who is more disciplined?”
Sarayu : “Both are equally disciplined.”
GOD : “Who is good with you?”
Sarayu : “Both are equally good to me.”
GOD : “Who is following the rules?”
Sarayu : “Both of them are not following all the rules, including myself, I am
sorry for it my lord!”
GOD : “Well, I am impressed with your honesty. Who is more for you?”
Sarayu : “They both are important in my life.”
Then GOD tells her “No, you need to choose one and explain why you have chosen it.”
She replies “My lord! They both are two eyes for me and without Two eyes we can’t see this Earth beautifully. One will protect me. One will fight for me. One will care for me. One will shout at me for care. One will show love. One will show affection. I can’t live with any of this missing. But why are you asking this question?”
GOD says “The boon is that you can save only one of them because soon both of them are going to have COVID19.”
Sarayu starts crying and asks “Are you serious, my lord? Why did you choose them?”
GOD replies “It is their Negligence Sarayu. I can’t help you with this thing.”
She asks “Why did you tell me this in advance?”
GOD replies “As I said it is your boon so that you can save only one of them.” Sarayu says “I want both of them to be safe and you are giving them a chance to save one of them.”
GOD says “It is not in my hand and as the order of my father and with his blessings you have gained a boon and you need to tell me a name.”
Sarayu replies “I don’t want to see Earth with one eye and so I need both of them and I can’t even decide.”
GOD says “You need to make a decision.”
She replies “I can’t tell a name to save only one of them, better take my life and make both of them alive.”
Then Chitragupta says to GOD “Nikhil is going to die within a few minutes due to an accident.”
GOD says to Sarayu “Your boon is fulfilled without your decision”. He then hangs up the call.
Sarayu tries to call the phone number, but instead she gets the message “check the number”. She cries.
She suddenly wakes up with her ma shouting in the morning. Finally, this is a dream of her and still, she needs to check this and open google-pay and verify the balance and it is as usual and asks her ma what is tiffin and her ma replies that Dosa.
She decides to call Nikhil to verify. He picks the call and says “Why did you call so early in the morning? Is there anything special or something serious?”
She answers “Nothing like that, just wanted to talk to you. What are your plans today?”
Nikhil replies “Going to the mall and enjoy.”
She warns him “Be safe. Carry your mask and sanitizer with you.”
He says “Nothing will happen to me Sarayu. Be cool.”
She raises her voice “You need to take me seriously.”
He says “Ok, I’ll take all the precautions, just cool down.”
Moral of the story: Don’t neglect mask and social distancing, because anything may happen without our influence. Also, be good always.
Author: Aluvala Nikhil
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Know more about the writer of this story: Aluvala Nikhil
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