The Death Race : Part 3

Michelle and Steve returned to Mr Parker's place a week later, this time along with Alan. 
Parker was furious on Steve for having traded his company shares without the board's notice. He felt it was an inexcusable mistake on part of Steve and felt he was not a trustworthy man. Parker wanted to know whether Michelle influenced Steve to buy the shares and also suspected that they both had conspired to bring up the board members against him. Parker was still not happy to accept the couple , but he was forced to do so for two reasons , first for Steve being a part of the board and second for the sake of Alan, he thought he could give a chance for himself and see whether he can like Steve over the course of time and know what exactly was his intentions behind the share deal. Parker was happy to see the future director of Parker banks in Alan. The only reason for Parker to accept Steve and Michelle was Alan. 

Parker assigns a private detective Abel Koontz to investigate more about Steve's intentions behind his share deal and also wanted him to know about Steve's history and whether Michelle was involved in this whole scene. Abel returned a week later and reported to Parker about the whole thing and informs Steve was a big time gambler and Michelle had not idea that Steve was one of the shareholders  He also told him that he had lost all his fortune and married a lady named Christina and betrayed her and also lost her money in various investments. Parker felt he was in grave danger and should act immediately. He calls for two separate meetings , one with Steve and the other with Mr.Gosling.

It was time for Christina to take some revenge. She finds out every bit about Steve and his history and all she wanted to was to kill Steve but not without getting every penny she had given him and every penny he had lost. Christina had a serious plan to execute. She wanted to see Steve die at her feet , there was no question about sparing him.

Parker called Steve for a meeting at his office. Steve knew what was in store for him , he took all the agreement papers and headed to Parker's office. Parker was discussing the next step with his board members, he was about to retire in another 2 years. They were laying a plan for the next 5 years about who should head the Bank and who will be his future successors. Steve knocked the door and entered into the Boardroom , Parker insisted others to leave the room except Mr Gosling. Parker demanded an explanation from Steve about his move and what he was up to and why he had the share deal without the board members interference. All Steve said was Michelle wanted him to be the next Chairman and she was the one who insisted to buy the shares , she also wanted him to invest in her fashion business. Steve told every bit of truth about Michelle and why she was pretending not to know anything about this. He also told Michelle knew that she was not your daughter, Parker was stunned in silence and was speechless to know that Michelle knew the truth. Parker looked at Gosling , the only other person who knew that Michelle was not his daughter. Gosling was clueless as well. The room was filled with silence. Parker asked Steve to leave , the silence was not broken for the next 15 minutes. 

As Steve left Parker's office , he was pulled into a car by two men who abducted him to a lonely place. He was taken by surprise when he saw Christina , she had a rifle pointed at him. Steve was clueless about the situation and begged Christina for mercy. She wanted to split his head into halves but decided against it. She told you will gain your mercy if he fulfills her demands. She wanted every penny back which she had given him , which amounted to over 10 million dollars and the shares he currently holds with Parker Banks. Steve's life was worth 10 million dollars and the 11% share he had and he knew there was no escape from Christina. 

Parker sat with Gosling and discussed about his future steps. He was still shell shocked to know how Michelle knew about the truth. He also feared she might be aware that he was responsible for her mother's death and adopted her due to that guilt. Parker wanted to come up with his will , gosling was ready to take his notes. Parker Banks and Investments will continue doing business , the 12 member board members will remain as it is until their retirements. The immediate successor to Parker after his retirement would be chosen by an election among the board members. Parker thought about Michelle and Steve and decided not share his fortune with them , since they had conspired against him.The last part of the will said Alan can join the Board of directors team once he reaches 21 and the will ended. Parker assigned Gosling a additional responsibility to persuade Steve to return his stake and there after Steve and Michelle can leave an independent life as they wish. Parker Banks will fund for Michelle's business but she won't have any rights to control Parker's business. The bottom line was Michelle and Steve had to leave immediately else Paker would see them in a courtroom. Michelle had listened everything standing outside the Boardroom. 

Michelle's heart was broken when she came to know Parker was responsible for her mother's death. She was never happy with Parker for the way he was influencing her life , she thought it had to end and she wanted to avenge on him and decided to take a stand and take control of the situation. She wanted to see a professional killer. She had a plan to execute. 

Gosling meets Michelle and Steve and explains them Parker's decision and tries to persuade Steve on returning his shares else they would have to surrender for their mistakes. Gosling wanted to speak to Steve in private so they can settle things and sort it out. They both left Michelle alone and headed towards the country Bar. Michelle heard a loud voice from her father's room and rushed to see him. 


Michelle wakes up from a deep sleep and had slept for 15 hrs straight. She called Steve but couldn't reach him, Gosling rushes to Michelle to inform that Steve was missing and was spotted with a woman north side of the town. Michelle had no clue who the woman was. Steve was with Christina. 

A week later Steve and Christina were arrested and were taken to local courtroom. Steve and Gosling arrived to the courtroom along with the other board members. Michelle was shocked to see Steve and wanted to know what he was accused of.  The prosecutor stated that Mr Steve and Christina were accused of conspiracy and committing the Murder of Mr.Parker. Michelle was shell shocked , she also discovered that Steve was married to Christina and had sold all his shares to her and wanted to leave the country,and caught by the cops when proven guilty in the investigation. Steve and christina had been to Parker's house and induced a forced Heart attack through a sedative. The death was considered natural by the doctors since Steve had influenced the doctors in dismissing the postmortem. Steve and Christina were sentenced to life death. Michelle steps in front of Steve and triggers fire from her gun at the center of Courtroom and escapes. 

She escaped from the courtroom and drives alone in her car , while driving she recalls all the mistakes she had done to her father and how she had planned to kill him since he was responsible for her mothers death , she felt guilty for her behaviour and ruining her own life. She was not able to drive too long , she loses control and a speeding truck smashes her car from front and Michelle dies on spot. 

Mr. Gosling performs the final rituals for Michelle and Steve and steps on as the Chairman, 10 years later Alan Parker becomes one of the Board members of Parker Banks and Investments. The Death Race had ended. 

The Death Race : Part 2

Michelle was waiting for an opportunity to introduce Steve to her father. Steve had different plans as far as why he wanted to be in relationship with Michelle. He had already planned his way of dealing with Mr. Parker. The single goal he had in mind was to head the Parker Banks and to be the next chairman , he pretended to be least interested in Parker Banks when Michelle was around him . Michelle wanted to influence her father and convince him that Steve was a perfect fit for their family and she also told Steve that the only way they are going to convince her dad was to prove him that Steve was capable enough to succeed Mr.Parker and lead the Parker enterprise in the near future.  Listening to these words Steve felt his half the job was done but pretended to be least interested again. He had virtually won his stake at this stage.

Steve's dad Stanley Richard was a very influential lawyer and he knew most of the board members of Parker Banks. Steve wanted to setup a meeting with Parker's board members  who were willing to sell off their shares without Parker's interference. The board members were 12 of them together including Parker. Parker had a major stake and held 12% of the total shares. Steve knew he will screw up the whole thing if Michelle gets a sign of what he was up to. Richard came to know their were two members of the board who were willing to sell their stake and it would come up to 11% , Steve thought this could be a good move and made all arrangements for the agreements sign up. Steve felt now he had a strong reason why he can be Michelle's husband and the next probable Chairman of Parker Banks. Richard never knew about Steve's relationship with Michelle and his actual intentions , all he knew was he was into another big gamble. This time Steve was not just gambling with his money but also betraying Michelle's trust. 

Michelle introduced Steve to her father and expressed her decision of getting married to him. Parker's immediate response was a big NO, he neither liked Steve nor he wanted Michelle to choose her partner , as with her career he always wanted to decide on her marriage. Michelle was furious on her father for continuously influencing her life and her decisions. All she wanted was to pursue fashion and marry Steve which her father never agreed upon. Steve insisted to speak with Mr.Parker in private, Parker refused at first and later thought the young man's explanation will not change his mind and signaled Michelle to leave the room. Steve was confronted with a tough challenge in convincing Parker , the conversation was nothing but mere failure, Parker's legacy,achievements and Steve's background never made parker change his mind. Parker stepped out of the room and warned Michelle that nothing should be done against his will. 

Two days later Michelle decided that she should marry Steve and follow her dreams and come out of her father's control. She spoke to Steve and expressed her intent to quit harvard and step into the fashion industry. Steve didn't like the idea , since he knew its not going to be in his favour. He wanted to marry her but not by going away from Parker. Steve was forced to agree and already thought about an alternate plan in his mind. Two days later they were away from Mr Parker and Harvard for a very long time to come. 

Parker discovered that Michelle was away from him and also found out from Mr Gosling that Steve owned 11% shares of Parker Banks , this made Parker aggravated and wanted to  avenge on Steve for having betrayed the stakeholders trust. Parker wanted the two board members who sold the shares to Steve be immediately probed and arrested if found guilty of misconduct and cheating. Parker envisaged this act as a conspiracy from Michelle , he wanted to destroy Steve and Michelle. 

Michelle sets up a new fashion school which trains models and a firm which introduces new fashion trends , she had limited funds to carry on with her dreams and wanted Steve to support her. Steve had different gambling ideas , and had no intention to support Michelle. Steve and Michelle who set out to create a lifetime fortune for themselves when they were in Harvard started destroying themselves. Two years later Michelle gave birth to a child and named him Alan Parker. She thought its time for her to go back to her father and expected him to receive her wholeheartedly. Michelle spoke to Steve about going back to her father , he thought he has another chance this time to hold on to the chairman position , he agrees with Michelle and thinks about Christina a multimillionaire and Steve's second wife whom he had married very recently and the only reason was she is a millionaire.

Read the Climax...

The Death Race : Part 1

This is my first try at writing a fiction. Hopefully you will enjoy it.... 

Michelle Parker rushed into her father's room when she heard a loud voice , she panicked seeing her father suffering with intense chest pain, immediately started dialing her husband who was at the scene in no time with an ambulance. She was sweating profusely as she heard those last two words from her dad. Mr Nigel Parker was desperate to say something on his death bed to his lovely daughter but took his last breath without uttering a word, all she knew was the death was not natural. Her father's hand was about to raise and point at something , he just didn't had enough energy. Michelle cried the whole day.

Two days later their family lawyer Mr Gosling read out Mr Parker's will to the whole family. Mr Parker was one among the richest bankers in the United states. He had a legacy which would take some time for anyone to match. All he said in the will was his legal heir will be his Grandson Alan Parker, but not until he attains an age 21, till then the board of directors would head the Parker Banks and Investments. The only person who was happy among the board was his son-in-law Steve Young as he had a major stake and all he wanted was to direct the Bank as he wished. Michelle observed steve's eyes , there was no grief in him for the past two days. 

Steve stepped on as the director of Parker Banks well within a month of his father-in-law's death. Michelle was not happy with how Steve was approaching his directorship, Gosling and other board members felt he was a big time Gambler and was not the right person to lead them. Michelle wanted to give some time to Steve and prove he is worthy of the position he has held onto. She just hoped her husband lives up to other board member's expectation. Four months passed since Parker's death , but Michelle was still not convinced with what had happened to her father. He was a very fit man and Michelle suspected something had gone wrong and needs to be probed. She just gasped in her couch and fell into a deep sleep thinking about her father. 

It was a great year for Parker Banks as they crossed a $Billion mark in terms of their revenue. Nigel Parker was in the limelight and was considered as one of the most influential in his business. Michelle had just crossed 18 and was training herself to step into Harvard. Parker wanted Michelle to enter into investment banking but Michelle wanted to enter Fashion industry. She was brilliant as a student and managed to step into Harvard just to fulfill her dad's wish. She enjoyed the most luxurious life , she dined in some of the finest restaurants , hung out with some great friends and almost travelled the entire Europe and the states. She never showed any signs of leading the Parker Banks , she wanted a life filled with exuberance and fun was always on the top priorities. 

It was the first day at Harvard for Michelle and she was never as nervous before, she knew this is not what she wanted to do but was forced to do it. She couldn't come out of the fashion industry that she dreamt of and planned to pursue her interests while staying at Harvard. Steve Young joined Harvard the next day , he was a Handsome looking man with a muscular body and girls started admiring him from day one. Steve was an intelligent man , just like how Michelle wished to have a exuberant life , Steve also viewed life from the same perspective. Steve's dad was a reputed lawyer who had worked for some great firms over the years and steve also knew a bit about law. Before joining Harvard steve served couple of years in the Entertainment industry and had lost all his fortune ,in other words he was a big time gambler right from his age 15. Michelle was frustrated after few months since she couldn't pursue her interests , not until she met Steve who topped the university exams and became famous among his wing of people. Michelle wanted to know him , one day she met him at one of the friends parties and introduced herself. Neither steve nor Michelle gave any time to understand both their backgrounds. They both knew they were in love the first time they saw each other. 

Michelle and Steve started dating there after and they were virtually inseparable. Steve never wanted to reveal his gambling history neither wanted Michelle to know his true character. Michelle one day told she was the daughter of Mr.Nigel Parker the chairman of Parker banks. Steve's desire towards Michelle increased not because she was beautiful or intelligent but she was one of the richest in the country. Steve's idea about love changed, Michelle loved him for who he was. Steve only told he was a lawyer's son and expressed his desire to marry her. Michelle immediately agreed as she was in so much love with Steve. Michelle doubted whether her father would accept Steve , but she was in Love and it hardly mattered for her. She never wanted to be influenced by her father in selecting her mate just like how he influenced her career. Michelle and steve made Love for the first time that day.


Curious to know whats ahead...? Read the Part 2.

             

Dad's Daughter

No words to express but only silence with a bit of tears.

Disclaimer :  Before you actually step into reading this master piece ,  i would like to claim that this is not my own creation instead i found it on some blog space and that of sharing it here. One of the very touching stories i have read, hope you will enjoy.... Cheers to the author for a brilliant job..

‘you have done a brilliant work Rajesh. You have been given….rrrrhhhhh……Raaaajjjeeeessshhhh………… Raaaajjjeeeessshhhh.’- what!! I woke up from a sudden jerk. ‘Raaajeeessshhh….’…I heard my wife yelling. What’s w/ her? Always yelling for something or the other. I can’t be in peace even in my dreams. Shucks!! Angrily, I kicked my blanket and got down. ‘Raaajesssh….’  ‘Coming Meera..what’s w/ you. Why are you shouting like this..’.


 I hurried down the stairs.  I saw Meera, my sweet(??!!) wife, sitting in the couch giving breakfast to my 7yr old daughter  Achala. Both looked happy, watching TV.  I got confused at the whole scenario. I came running down, expecting some kind of earthquake, but instead here everything was in place. I looked at my wife & daughter. She smiled at me back.  Now, I more got confused, what’s happening here? Am I in a dream?


‘Meera…’
‘Yeah Rajesh…’
‘You called me. In fact yelled.’
‘Yes. You are right!’
‘Everything is fine here right? Why you screamed like that then…’
‘It’s ‘cos it’s going to be 8am now.’


 I couldn’t understand what she was trying to say. Is she playing some kind of prank? Is this the time for all these? I have to be in office by 9am for a meeting.  


 ‘Yes. It’s going to be 8am.Right! So…?’
‘Rajesh, don’t tell me, you forgot…today is 27th ‘
‘27th..What 27th? 


‘Don’t tell me you don’t remember?’
  Meera gave me an ‘I’ll kill you’ look. Is it her birthday? No it’s somewhere at the year end. Is it my daughter’s? No no , we celebrated last month only right. Got it. Should be our Anniversary.


 ‘Hey Meera, How will I forget our Anniversary…’ 
‘Whaattttttt????….Anniversaryyyyy???…..’


 Got it. It’s not our anniversary. Before I get killed…What’s w/ 27th. What ?? what?? Come on Rajesh!! Think. Nothing hit my mind. I looked at my daughter for a clue. She turned her face away. What’s with all women? Why can’t they be straight forward & say things. With so much work pressure, how on earth I am supposed to remember all the dates?. If I say something, then Meera will pick up a fight, and I will miss the meeting, my whole day will be gone. I made up my mind to surrender.  


 ‘Meera, Sorry, I don’t remember. This medicine I am taking for cough, Something happened..my memory is deteriorating ..What’s today?’  Meera doesn’t seem like buying that excuse from me.


 ’Meera, please tell me’ I asked in a pitiable tone..


‘Rajesh..You don’t remember at all?’  I moved my head left & right meaning NO. I kept my face like I am a patient suffering from ‘amnesia'. 


'Rajesh, As part of annual day celebrations, today is 'Daddy's Day' in Acchu's school. I have been telling you for the past 3 weeks. Now don’t tell me you forgot. You already promised that you will go with her to her school'
I couldn’t believe that I accepted for something like that. 'Meeraa..did I??'
'Yes. You did'
‘at what time it starts..?'
'By 8:30am and ends at 1pm'.


Gosh!! 9am!! I have such a critical meeting. How I will attend all these.


“Meera, you could have reminded me yesterday right?’


‘Oh I didn’t remind you? Great. I didn’t call to your office. Or remind you in the evening and before going to bed’


Might be I wouldn’t have heard it. Or slipped out of my memory. What ever!!


'Meera! Can’t you attend all these. Why should I??'
"Rajesh. It’s Daddy's Day!...DADDY'ss!!!!!'
'Oh yeah....but...'
'But what????...'
'errrh....might be some other day...'
'What? You want the school to postpone the function?'
'No..No…actually..what..I am saying is..'
'What Rajesh??? What?? Tell me. You promised Acchu and are you going to disappoint her? '
I stood there totally helpless. I looked at my daughter. She was all dressed up and ready to go. She looked like, she will cry any time. I saw Meera. She gave me a murderous look. I thought for a moment and my mind raced with many calculations. Important meeting. I can’t miss for sure. Half a day is too much. So many deliverables will get affected. I can’t face Meera again if I don’t go. Might be I can postpone the meeting by an hour and for name sake visit that function and escape to office. 


 'Meera, I will go, but I can spend only 1 hour..'
'No...that’s not..'


Before Meera finished the sentence, Acchu rushed to me 'Thanks daddy. 1hour. Mom, 1hour is enough mom. Please don’t fight mom. Daddy, get ready soon..' she nudged me.
 ‘Do you know her school name and the route for the school or you want me to tell???’ Asking that Meera threw me an angry look and left the living room. I rushed up, got ready. Called my manager & told that I got stuck in traffic jam and postponed the meeting to 10am. 


I took Achala to her school. I felt somehow entering the school, ‘cos it’s the 2nd time, I am entering her school. In fact 1st time. I once dropped her outside her school gate. The school had a big playground, Small Park with all kids playing equipments. Some stalls were put up. So many kids with their fathers moved around here & there.  Suddenly I felt some one touching my hand 


‘Are you achala’s daddy?’ – A small kid asked. She had curly hair and bubbly smile. 


‘Yes,,,My Daddy..…’ – Achala responded in an excited tone. And some kids ran towards me and Achala started introducing everyone. 


‘Daddy! this is Rohit, this is zakir, Anis, Sylvia, Divya..’ – I told hello to everyone. 


‘Daddy, Daddy, Zakir is my best friend.’ – I smiled at that cute blue eyed boy. 


‘Uncle, Acchu told that you have so much work and you won’t be able to come. She told she won’t come in today. You don’t have work Uncle?’ – Zakir asked me.


I suddenly felt very bad on how my daughter has understood me. ‘No Zakir, I don’t have work’


‘Daddy, they are calling for the games. ‘ . Zakir ran to his father and waved his hands at me & achala. I took achala by hand and walked towards the stage. They were announcing the 1st game. Fathers will be given a sheet containing questions about their kids.  Fathers have to fill about their kids which will be verified with the kids response.


Achala was all excited about the game and she was all set to go. But I felt shivers. I looked at my daughter. Suddenly, I felt very far from her, and the reality hit me, that I don’t know anything about my very own daughter. I blurted out ‘Acchu..we will attend the next game..This one ..’ She gave me a deep stare. I thought she is going to cry or shout or do something. But instead she pulled out a small paper from her jeans pocket and gave it to me. Completely baffled, I opened the sheet.

My name is Achala. My birthday March 21st. I am 7yrs old. I like butterfly. Superman. Dairy milk. painting. dancing. I am in  1st standard A section. I like Dora. Mango. Apple. Fried rice. Jelly. I don’t like banana. I drink  boost.. I like yellow color. My nick name is ‘Honey dew’


And the list went on with small, small spelling mistakes. I looked at Acchu. ‘Daddy, read it, I know they will keep this game. So I wrote it 2 days back itself, to give you if you come. If they ask anything about me, write there. Ok Now go & attend the game’. Most of the things, my daughter has written & gave me, I never knew anything about it. I suddenly felt a lump in my throat. I went to the stage waved my hand to Acchu and got the question sheet. Since Acchu gave the sheet, I came to know about her & I answered almost all the questions. Then they asked Acchu on stage and asked the questions to her. We got the 2nd highest mark in that game. Acchu came running towards me and hugged me. They gave a ‘toy guitar’. Everyone congratulated us. Thou’ I won that game, I felt like a loser. I know, I don’t deserve this. I don’t know anything about my daughter.
She looked very happy showing that guitar to her best friend, zakir . What a kid she is. Understanding that her dad is totally hopeless and don’t want to let her dad down, before others she prepared that sheet and gave to me. The lump in my throat started getting bigger and my heart became heavy. I caressed her hair. What a beautiful smile she has and such big eyes. Does she miss a wing to get qualified as an angel? I have never admired my daughter or even watched her in all these years. She has that cute dimple of Meera’s as well as her eyes. Does that curling lip edges when she smiles, is mine? How I missed all this in my life.


Achala pulled me to the stalls there and I got some eatables and ballons for her and zakir.. She kept talking about the next game and suddenly my mobile rang. Oops!! Is it already 10am. I looked at Acchu . Suddenly her face became dark. She looked totally upset and asked in an low voice ‘Daddy! You have to leave now?’
 I looked at my mobile. My manager was calling. It’s already 10am. I looked at Acchu. I looked around. All those happy kids with their fathers. I thought about my school days, where my dad used to come for all sports day, annual day, sit with me, cheer me up. Every day morning, while dropping me to school, he will wait near the gate until my head disappear. Evening, he will come & pick me up in his cycle, and I will be telling him all the stories that happened that day in school. 


I saw Acchu. How many untold stories my daughter has kept in her heart to say me? I thought about all those days, where I yearned for a girl child and I wonder, how much of my time I gave her.I pulled her closer, gave a kiss on her fore head ‘No Honey! I am not going. I will be here only…we will attend all games and roam around whole day.ok?’ 


‘Really?’ – She asked in an unbelievable tone.
 ‘Yes sweetz’


‘Thank you Daddy!’ – Achala kissed my cheeks and ran to her friends. School teaches you something or the other always. This time, ‘back to school’ has taught me a wonderful life’s lesson. I called my manager & told that am running high fever and can’t come in today. I know, I can handle things tomorrow. Today my daughter needs me more than anyone can need me in this world. With a lighter heart, I got up; ran towards Acchu, lifted her and gave her a big swing. She erupted into an uncontrollable laughter. The lump in my throat started melting away.

“Hot chocolate” aka “Life”!!!

Well this blog is something for which i really need to have my disclamiers spot on:
Disclaimer: The intellegience behind this post is not mine, what a wonderful thought this post carries; i had an oppurtunity to borrow this thought from one of my acquantinance I hope this post creates a meaninful entity among all my other posts which are totally my sole property. Its time for a cup of coffee folks , reach out for your cups.

It was nice Saturday afternoon we, a group of friends from college, well established in their careers, were discussing about their lives at a class reunion seating on a green grass cushion of Cubbon Park.  Amit says “Buddy things are bad, too much of work at office…can not give enough time to my family”. Rahaul says “ha ha ha….see that is why I am still so happy no family no tension”. Amit says “huh!!! What crap. I know you spend whole night in office and then next day you call me whether there is any opening in my company.” We started laughing. Amit continues “Buddy it is not the family problem, it is the work, the rat race and running behind money attitude”. Chitra says “Yes I do agree that point. But what shall I do. Now market is bad, it is difficult to get a job so need to listen to my boss. Also my company pay is good how I can leave that”. Later the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work, lives and relationships. Danny finally breaks the thread and says “yeah yeah…we all are in a ‘chakra buhu’ need to come out of…lets meet Vijay Sir one day and discuss about that”. So we decided to go visit our old university professor, who was always an inspiration to them.

It was nice house inside IISC campus very nice and peaceful place. Offering us hot chocolate, our professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups.  Some cups were porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite. He invited each to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor shared his thoughts.

 “Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. 

While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.”

“The cup that you are drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What each of you really wanted was hot chocolate.  You did not want the cup . . . but you consciously went for the best cups. And soon, you began to eye one another’s cups.”

I said in my mind “Common proff, I mean that is what we want. We struggled so much to get a nice comfortable life”.

There was streak silence and our beloved professor continues “Now friends, please consider this . . .Life is the hot chocolate . . . your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life.”

 “The cup you have does not define, nor does it change, the quality of life you are living. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us. Always remember this . . . . . . . God brews the hot chocolate, He does not choose the cup.”

He looked at me with a wink in his eye, “ya I know you do not believe in God….so for you it is the destiny”.

He continues, “The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have!!”

Danny added “Steve Jobs says …Stay Hugry, Stay Foolish”.

Proff says “yes very true, that is for knowledge not for success”.

He continues, “Live simply ...Care deeply...Speak kindly...Love generously...and if you can love generously something the success will come and will knock you door and will bring happiness along. So do not chase the success be the best and try to excel”

We all are dumb stuck. He broke the silence and said loudly “Enjoy your hot chocolate gentlemen!!! Remember, the richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least. By the way did you guys watched ‘3 idiots’…..’”