Abstracts of Human Lives

By Chirag Pathak

The book – Abstracts of Human Lives, provides the collection of short stories with a motivational message. Although the fictional stories and characters, but certainly provides the message that can be related to the real world. We have different ways of getting motivation in our lives but through human connection we get motivated the most. Also, ordinarily simple examples of normal and routine life tend to motivate us more often than extra ordinary examples. This book furnishes such stories and with such examples circling around common lives, common problems and are as simple as our lives should be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
• Release date: Nov 23, 2022

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1

Time

Like you often get some talkative people while travelling, today was such a day for Vivek. He got one old man in the next seat. It was obvious to have a conversation started by a question from an old man to a young one about what he does!

Well, I am a writer. Or at least I am trying to be. Vivek answered him.

Ohh, good to know that you are doing something for yourself. Smile was there on his wrinkled face but deep in his eyes it was an ocean of a memory of the possibilities from the past and a false alternative present, for which he could have not done anything now but express.

He continued In my days I had so many dreams, but to be a financial support to my family I had to leave them all. I look back with so many regrets now. All I can see is so many moments which I could have lived differently.

Vivek listened to him carefully. He knew that this was the point of conversation where one need who listen to him, perhaps only listen to him. So, he did it quietly.

Decent jobs are good till you realise you can do more with yourself especially when you don’t get paid enough for your contribution. Or someone like me definitely hit this in life, don’t we? And I started small business. When I had less money, I had time with my family and when I had money, I lost time which I still miss. I miss so many moments from my son’s childhood. Then there was a down time.

Still managing smile, or out of habit now after all this he continued Starting a new business is not a problem but it will take all that time once again. You keep pouring your time till the point you can’t think of not giving it anymore. Didn’t realise when I surpassed my physical limits and then it forced me to have a pause in life. The pause that you don’t want to take knowing if you take it now then it is for forever.

Taking a deep breath, he said But then we all do take that pause for one or another reason. Even though we will regret it but sometimes you need to choose which regret you can bear. Now is the point where all the alternatives look ravishing but none of them did at the point where I could have chosen it.

Oh, it seems I am boring you with all this. You have a life ahead. He asked Vivek suddenly in between of his life’s story.

No, no. Not at all. Vivek answered politely.

So, tell me your story. He continued with intention of encouraging the young one. What did you lose in past?

But the answer from a young writer encouraged the old one instead for rest of his life A past.

We don’t lose mere more than what we created, the true lose is a ‘Time’.

2

Agony or Anger

So, what is the problem? He knew she would take time to share her personal problems. Not because she didn’t want to, but she doesn’t like to show her weakness.

Leave it Prakash. You won’t understand. It was difficult for Archana to hold up against him, his best friend. But she