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New Year

New Year

BR Raksun 


The old Year is going. I am yet in the old year. I don’t want to let her go.

 

"Hi Buddies. I am going. Stop loving me. A new year is coming for you. She will take care of you."

 

"I want you. You are very lovely. I flourished to so much in this year. I don’t know how the New Year will be for me. I want you to stay."

 

She laughed. She said, "I cannot stay for you. My time is over. I am weak and broken. Go quick if you want to stay alive. Leave me now, I am in hurry. Few minutes are left."

 

I am so unhappy, as I am losing my prosperity, I am so unhappy for I am losing everything. I loved this year so much.

 

As the darkness is around and the old year is getting as a part of darkness and vanishing, I am also out in the darkness.

 

It is the galaxy, a blurred scattering of stars in the night. I lost my way. The old year is gone. My luck, my prosperity, my future is gone. I am in the galaxy, moving here and there. I did not find my old year. I am in misery. I am in distress and destruction. I found the globe as the brightest one I have just left. I am repenting at my foolishness. Who will leave such a beautiful, nicely decorated globe? Am I not a fool?

 

 

*****

 

I saw a small space ship coming towards me. Somebody gave me a hand. He came out from the space ship. He is flying in the space like a ball. Next minute, he took me to the spaceship.

 

As I have reached there, I found some people who are scientists.

 

I wished them, "Good Evening doctors."

Doctors showed some unknown interest looking at me.

 

"Happy New Year" I said again looking at them with a broad smile.

 

"Happy New Year, so the new year has come."  One scientist said.

 

"Yes Doctors. New Year has come. I dropped here following the old year." I said.

 

They wondered. They saw me as a wonder man.

 

"You came here in this space, just following the old year? It is wonderful." One doctor said with real astonishment.

"What is wonder? It was possible, if not how he can come here?"  Another doctor said.

"Our president is about to inspect our space craft in the TV on land. He is more particular about good results. How can we make him believe that we got this gentleman as stray man in the space? It is not possible to travel in space without a space craft." One more doctor said.

 

"What to do now?" The Psychologist-cum-scientist asked others.

 

I saw in to the faces of the scientists as if I am requesting them to save me. They all look very kind.

 

"We are going up to land some unknown planet. Let us drop him on that planet." One scientist said.

 

"If there is no life, this gentleman will die. So we should not do that." Another scientist said.

 

"Yes he will die. Even if we leave him here in the space, he will die. Moreover, he is not a scientist like us, so we have to search some other way to save this gentleman." The head of the scientists said with pity on me.

Then another scientist who is operating radio operations came there and said,

 

"There is plenty of interfering radiation. But it's now thinned out enough for contact. Shall I contact with the earth? "He asked the senior scientist.

 

He has been indicated a chair besides me. He saw me first time sitting beside me.

 

"Sit calm. Don’t contact the land now. We have to first dispose this Old Year gentle man and then we will contact the land. We are safe and have good contact position, so we need not worry. Have a better look on this gentleman who came in to space following the old year." 

 

Senior scientist explained him about me. Now all the scientists on the space craft are well acquainted with me.

 

I have been given the space equipments and the space dress. I had the food they are eating and the drink they are drinking. "Thanks" I said with a lot of gratitude.

 

"Thanks. But we have lot more to do to get you away from here." The psychologist-cum-scientist said with a lot of serious thinking...

"You did a mistake by following the old year, you know. Just by that simple mistake done by you, this mission is getting the trouble." Another scientist said.

 

"Not the most hospitable-looking place-- this is for you. Is it not right?"  One more scientist asked me with a lot more care.

One more scientist grinned faintly. "Well, we're good at doing that, aren't in the problem of no food and water, are we not right?"

 

I bowed and expressed my respect to the team of scientists.

 

"You weren't feeling good, why?" The psychologist-cum-scientist asked the one who sat beside me with surprised looks. 

"No. I am too busy thinking to setting things up for contact." 

 

"Sit calm. Don’t contact." The senior scientist said.

 

"Well"--he sat back in his chair--"I may say it was a way not regular for we scientists, think a while, doctor. “

"Of course." 

"My arguments...”

 

"We don’t hear. This is important man who lost his path following the old year. It may happen to us also, I mean losing our path and entering some other place. It is just like that. So we must think this as our mistake and find out how to come out of this dangerous situation."

 

As the senior scientist is saying, all the other scientists tossed their heads.

 

"I got it. I got the way to send him back to home." One scientist cried with ecstasy.

 

"How is it?" the wonder faces of the scientists saw him.

"We stop some home going spaceship to land and send him back to his place."

 

As he said this idea with a nice thought, all the scientists clapped.

 

"Great let us find some space ship going to land."

 

Then the scientist who is operating radio operations stood and said, "Leave this task for me. I will contact such spaceship and request to come here to help this gentle man."

 

"It is still preferable to the degree of brain-washing required to produce significant alterations to transfer this cargo to land."  One scientist said.

One scientist shook his head. "Not the last. We wouldn't have considered attempting personality alteration in his case." 

 

"A new thought, what we can do in this gentleman's case."

Personality alteration is like making a living being in to a robot and send in the space floating in the space to any place.

 

"Dr Simon, You are a specialist in this personality transformation. What do you say?"

 

"No problem. We change him as a robot going four times faster than a space ship. We give him a capsule also. As soon as he reaches his place, he has to eat the capsule and he can be as usual a normal human being of his original shape and caliber, no problem at all."

 

The explained me. They transferred me in to fast superior robot and they gave me a magic capsule also.

"Be careful gentleman," he said. "If you lose the capsule, you cannot be a human being of your original form. So take care, or you are dead." 

 

I got all precautions and I have been changed in to space robot of 2 feet and the capsule is given to me. I have kept the capsule.

 

I have been thrown out of the space craft.

 

What I cannot understand is one point. I could enter the space and enter the space craft with no problem. Then why I am having the trouble to go home.

 

Anyhow, I lost the old year now. I have to go back to New Year. How she will treat me. I don’t know.

 

Thinking this, I came out of the space ship and going fast and fast to land on the earth.

* * * * * 

 

I reached home safe. I ate the capsule. I got back my home.

 

Just then the crackers are getting burnt, the sky lights are great.

 

I saw a great lighting in the sky. The darkness is gone.

 

"Happy New Year" The lights sparkled.

 

"Happy New Year" I said with cheers.

 

The New Year came and gave me warm welcome. I saw that this New Year is lovelier than the last year.

"Do you expect you are grateful for us?" 

 

I saw all the scientists before me. I shook hand.

 

"Obviously," I said with great respect.

 

 "And at a guess it is not a magic. The space is inside you. We are all in you, inside. It is a good show reasonably in good order, for you." 

The scientists said. They are all vanished after saying happy New Year to me. 

*****

"What do you say?" asked my friend. 

"Nothing, what is the time now?"

"The time is about to celebrate New Year party. Get ready. It is getting late," My friend said hurrying me.

 

"Oh-Hoo-Hoo-HAW! HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS!"

 

I cried for I came back happily safe to welcome the New Year.

 

[END]

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Text: Sunkara Bhaskara Rao
Images: Sunkara Bhaskara Rao
Editing: Sunkara Bhaskara Rao
Translation: -
Publication Date: 08-09-2015

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