The chosen flower of the Man

     The flower, which was plucked by him, was not an ordinary one. It was impressive and always spread fragrance around people.

     He always kept it in the cupboard so no one could break it. Every time the man looks at the rose; he considers himself a brave man. Whenever he approaches the house, he directly reaches around the cupboard to smell, dust, and talks to it.

    Sometimes he left his work to take care of the flower and the family members always scolded him that he does not work and always stands for the protection of a flower. "You are a stupid man. You always waste your time looking at a dead flower," his elder brother claimed while he was finding out his course books.  "Leave it, he does not follow us and let him sit in the house to look at a rose," narrated his father while he was checking his office files. The man ignored them and started sweeping the place of the flower. After a long time, his flower becomes dry and its fragrance begins to disappear slowly. Whenever he sees it in this condition, he becomes sad and starts overthinking about it. When his father judges his facial expression, he asks him. "What has happened to you my son?"  He does not respond and becomes silent as a graveyard. "Are you okay? Should I take you to the hospital?" He asks. He does not respond to him and sat at the corner of the cupboard looking at his flower and brought the flower near his nose to sniff it, but it could not spread the previous fragrance. "Speak little to me. I'm here around you no one hurts you. I'm your protector," he said pityingly to it.

    Due to seeing the rose in this condition, he once again bothers himself to appear in the garden to pluck a flower as the previous one. After a long observation, he still could not find a single one, the whole flowers were white and he comes out with empty hands.

    Due to his failure to get that kind of flower, he cried a lot and started chatting to himself about whom is going to be his best friend like the rose flower that he communicated with. Is there anyone to spread fragrance as the flower did? The entire creatures are silent in the garden. He pressed the earlier rose into his hands to remember the past days that he spent around it.   "I never expected that you would cheat on me immediately," he said to it while rubbing its petals. 

    On account of staying a long duration around the garden, his whole family rushed to him that why he is alone and looking upset for a departed flower. “I will bring one for you, Beta do not worry," he encouraged him while rubbing his head. The child's tears were dropping on his cheeks. "This world is a selfish, greedy, and unfaithful place. People respect those who are wealthy and always ignore the lower classes. The friendship which I have passed with a rose was an unbroken chain, but cheated me as the whole world will be departed one day and a universe is a temporary place."  The young man pointed out to them in the garden. When they heard his points and they started looking at each other and considered themselves as acquisitive, egoistic, and unfaithful persons.

    You people are around me, but I still feel that I'm alone and a single flower was everything for me. If it could not help me, a fragrance always spread for me to maintain my heart positively. This human being is considered as " Ashraf Ul Maqlokath", but still like a hollow man. Due to his speech, the people become inspired by him and start following his faith. But the man was still remembering his departed flower among many people.

 

By: Nawaz Nigwari

Turbat Kech Balochistan