365 days Writing Prompt: Four Stars

Write a review of your life—– or the life of someone close to you— as if it were a movie or a book.

I  will write about someone who was very close to me. He was born in a village in Bangladesh, the name of the village is ‘Aburkandi’, how they chose the name is something I don’t know.

From very early in life he was a brilliant student, he didn’t have to pay tuition fees in school, he received a scholarship for all of his education.

He moved to a small town to continue his education, luckily his half brother lived there, so he lived with him until he finished his undergraduate degree.

After completing his degree he went to Calcutta( now Kolkata)to look for a job, he was offered a job at the post office, a few months later his services were borrowed by the ministry of defense for two months. His performance impressed the authorities, who decided to keep him.

He moved to Delhi where he went up the ladder of success and soon was promoted to the Assistant Secretary of defense.

His sister-in-law was impressed by his performance and felt her sister should be married to him. At first the parents declined their argument was they didn’t want two daughters to be married in the same family. Undaunted the sister-in -law kept pushing the marriage proposal until the parents gave in to her demand.

Soon after the young man was married to his sister-in-law’s sister.

While working the young man studied law, he felt it would be helpful in his job and it did.

He was interested in learning languages,besides Arabic, he learned Urdu and Persian. Since English was the medium of instruction he learned to speak the language fluently.

He had a number of children, he was always interested to see his children well-educated. His eldest son turned out to be a disappointment, he was one of those parents who didn’t like to force his children to do what they did not want to do.

He loved his children and always did what was best for them.

He fell severely ill, at the age of forty-seven he died, leaving behind his wife and  children.

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Unnecessary by R.Tagore translated by Ranu

Rabindranath  Tagore has in a very subtle way pointed out the things we do unnecessarily.

Standing inside the grassy forest on an empty bank of the river, I called and asked her,

Who are you walking on this deserted street covering a lamp with the corner of your sari?

The light in my house is not lit,

leave your lamp here Bala.

In the almost dark evening, she looked up at me with her two dark eyes for a moment

she said, ‘I will immerse the lamp in the river

this is why I am here at the end of the day.’

While standing in the  grassy forest,

I watched the lamp floating away without any justification.

Well into the evening when it started getting dark I called and asked her,

‘you lit all the lamps in your house who is the recipient of this lamp?

The lamp is not lit in my house,

leave your lamp here Bala!’

She looked at me for a moment as if by mistake;

she said,’ this lamp of mine

I will lift it towards heaven.’

I looked up and saw in the corner of the heavens

the lamp was burning for nothing.

On the last day of the dark fortnight I went to her and asked,

‘oh my dear where are you going with the lamp close to your chest?

the lamp is not lit in my house,

leave your lamp here Bala.’

In the dark she looked at me momentarily with her curious eyes  then;

she said,’I brought this light

I have to decorate it with the other lamps.’

I looked and saw, among thousands of lamps

her lamp was burning unnecessarily.

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English: Rabindranath Tagore ,Tamilndu,India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)