Deep Insight

The well was hollow, water deep. I could swim but not now. I was groping for a hand. Fear of death had already taken its grip on me. I had tried for a while to stay afloat, but failed. I did realize very lately, my knowledge of swimming was of no help. I struggled to breathe. All images around went bleak. I barely could recognize anyone, but for the words they spake.

Sunlight was evading my eyes. The hollow well echoed voices that once I thought were loving me. Now, they were merely witnessing my departure. I tried really hard to stay awake – alive. I couldn’t control my senses, they were failing me. Faintly, I remember the words she uttered. ‘This is how you deserve to die.’

This came to me as a terrible shock, in spite of the life struggle that I was in, a part of me was trying to understand this lady.

Death was around the corner. I was wondering beyond my breathlessness, on what was this lady made of. Oh dear ! when I loved her so much  beyond the love, I held for my wife and the two children we made. We were such a lovely family, till this lady entered our lives.

A sober kind I am, caring, loving, doting father and husband I was. Too engrossed in work and spared just a little time for the family. When I was planning for an adventure in business, came by my sense of adventure with my sensuousness. I wasn’t very sure on whom to rely on in the first phase of my enterprising. I had to give away the benefit of doubt to almost everyone. I was tired of mediocre people and mediocre results.  I was all eyes for excellence of every kind.

This Lady, name her M just like with 007, was shrewd in many ways than one. Looks weren’t bad either. She had impressed my customers and me too in the making of my business. Worked hard and got closer. I had become very dependent on her for operations. Then it happened once, twice, and often. It improved by the day. Before another year, the business grew so much that I had seen scope to diversify. As time would have it, for smooth operations I had delegated most of the powers to M.

From nowhere, D appeared. Introduced by M, D was a destitute in need of a living. By the time I realised that D was M’s ex-husband, it was too late. My business had transformed into a failure, losing to a new competitor. The competitor was none other than M and D, who had floated a new name for business by then. Engrossed with my acquisition of vendors on one side and customers on the other, I lost sight of the shift.

A thoroughly blind man could have seen it but i didn’t. I sacked them, or should I say they sacked my business and me. My vendors weren’t paid and customers weren’t serviced, monies had been siphoned. I garnered evidence and met up with them one day, making a point-by-point to-do list for them. Strangely, during the meeting both were very cooperative and accepted of their past and future recourse, till I was suddenly hit by some loud metal on my head from the rear. I know nothing afterwards.

Now, here I was inside some hollow but deep well, moving out of senses and life in totality. Going down the well, with a deep insight, ‘I should have known whom to trust’. Immediately, as a spontaneous response, I was ‘told’, you too had betrayed the Trust of someone not so long ago.