Love,the hidden path to death
Have you ever been in love .Is n’t it amazing that love can be the sole reason for beginning of a new life or end of one’s life !. in my case love had only inflicted deep wound s in my heart.I usually have two ways of reacting if I didn’t get something.1. work harder and harder till I get it.2.raise my value so that the thing doesn’t suit me. But these things never work for lost love. I was completely drowned in thoughts till my cell phone rang.it was anonymous voice.
‘hello. I am Sophie, Tanu’s cousin.
‘eh ? Tanu ?’
‘oh Tania .I am doing my MS .I need the source code of your chat bot for my project submission.
‘ok I will call you at night.’
‘I am having night shift. Mobiles not allowed inside IBM .Bye Mr. Programmer’
I never thought that this strange girl is going to have an impact in my life. Days passed .one night at 2.30 I got a call in my gtalk.
‘Hi dear,Nice orkut caption “feeling suicidal” so whats in your mind’
‘I want to eat synide poisoned apple’
‘following footsteps of legendry Allen Turing ?’ she then continued in a disappointed tone. ’I want to cut my veins .I don’t feel any pain now.’
‘Suicide? You are working at IBM, a successful person.So why ?’
She laughed for a while.’success ?Getting a job doesn’t bring any success. Success is the degree for measuring ones happiness. If one can be happy for a minute he is the most successful person at that moment’
‘So what happened . what’s the story?’
‘Break up. I loved a spineless moron who thinks that planets such as Jupiter ,Saturn etc.. that rotates thousands of mile away can affect life.He still believes in astrology.well I am logging for half an hour Mr. suicidal’
When you are in love it is hard to sleep,when your love is rejected sleep becomes a dream ,you get an additional six hours in a day.You can go through manuscripts and works of scientists which haven’t even read by anyone,She came online after an hour.
‘Oh .So you are also a suicidal insomaniac.what were you doing ?’
‘Just writing a poem’
‘Send it .I am also writer .Let me valuate it’
I converted the poem into image and send it to her.
‘Somebody played in between? Don’t take love seriously. It is just a reaction of chemicals and hormones and I am sure she is not perfect’
‘I know.This knowledge made my life more pathetic.I am hurt not because my love was rejected but I was rejected.It was not an infactuation ,a bond that made me strong. I was a Neanderthal before I met her.She was the only person who understood me.Now I feel lonely. You are right ,she is not perfect but we were perfect.I never had any ambition in life.She wanted to be an IAS officer .look where two of us stand.So what about you marrying someone else ?’
‘marriage ,its an illusion to bring more misery to the miserable Earth .So Mr.Still in Pain have you found the purpose of life .?’
I suddenly replied ‘Life doesn’t have any purpose or meaning. Ultimate aim of every living being is to reproduce.Life is like playing chess against a super computer.You got 3 seconds for a move and the damn computer have 3 days.Only an insane person will dream about victory.
‘So you play chess?’
‘yup.I just use an algorithm to make my move .So basically a slow player ‘
She laughed:’Executing program inside head! You always do things like this? .Executing in the head .When did you began to see everything as an execution pattern?’
‘When I was in ninth grade I was one of the computer illiterates .One day I copied a short cut of age of empires and gave it to my friend. They all laughed for hours .I felt hurt and decided to learn more about computers. I learned QBASIC in six hours. I don’t like being weak. Being weak is the greatest sin one can commit. From that day on nobody laughed at me .I have never met a person who can beat me at coding till now. ‘
‘Programming is like writing a poem .The same part of brain functions .We have to keep our brains always busy otherwise it will bring us unpleasant memories and drives us to depression’
Months passed .We chat about almost everything.One day she informed me that she is coming to Kerala and we decided to meet at marine drive. When people have their love failures ,some will begin to think about god,some will curse god, question her. some people will think that its all for good, some will turn to saints .I never had any problems like this .I never prayed to god .Only thing I did not knew about myself was what is impossible for me .I always wanted to go for reading university to do research in artificial intelligence. Now my plans have changed ,I don’t want to waste my remaining years in Earth doing some research work .I prefer to be with my parents rather than anything.My ambition in life is to be a little bit more happier on tomorrow than today and to feel little less pain.
I saw her talking to a preacher. When I came closer I undersood it was not a friendly conversation .
‘Get some elementary education. god doesn’t exist’
‘Child,all of the great people and scientists believe in’
She replied before he finished his line’Einstein said the word god is nothing more than product of human weakness and imagination.Allan Turing ,father f modern computer science,Bill Gates,Linus Tovald,Mr. Facebook creator,Mr.Apple company founder are atheists.it seems like computer science is out of your hand.Thomas Jefferson,Bruce Lee,Bagat singh, Marie Curie,Stephen Hawking,Dawkins etc.. are all with me.Do you have any proof for god?’
The preacher pointed his hand towards some pigeons sitting under a tree and continued’ look at that tree ,the pigeons, you.Is n’t it proof of god?’
‘These are proof for evolution’.
Preacher came with a stupid reply’If monkeys came from frog ,show me a fronkey.If humans came from monkey why is still monkeys here?’
She sighed and continued’ Humans came from primates not from monkey.And monkeys are still here because if they weren’t here with whom would we compare people like you?’
I suddenly got hold of her and dragged her away from the scene and whisphered to her ‘police station is a few yards away.This place is a very bad’
‘This is a bad place not because of bad people,but because of good people who does not respond.Indian constitution is founded by atheists such as Ambedkar and Nehru .I have my rights .What’s your religion?’
‘Well. I Am following Buddhism.I am an agnostic .I don’t care about the existence of God .It can’t change anything so leave me’
‘It’s a pity that all religions teaches the dangerous nonsense that the life is not the end ,so people can stop valuing there life . My mother stopped talking medicines after reading some stupid articles.She said to me that if god doesn’t wanted her to suffer she wouldn’t have got ill.She did not realize death is the end’
‘You are wrong Sophie,death is not the end.I have been dead a million times.I am not the same erson I was two years back. I have transformed myself and the old me is dead.Every day you dies and you transforms.You die every second’
She crossed the road and grabbed me into a bar.i was stunned and she laughed ‘oh . dear don’t be stunned I am from bangloru. ‘
She drank a few glasses of whisky. I have drank only once in my life and it turned out be a joke for everyone.Now I don’t even drink tea or coffie. After that we went to Sridhar ,it was the only thing to do since I did not have a driving license.During the movie she sometimes clapped ,she laughed wildly at scene where Bruce wills was trying hard to save his life.After the movie we went to my home.She saw my aquarium and moved towards it .She was going to put her hands inside the aquarium but suddenly she pulled her handsand shouted ‘what the hell ,a pet snake ?’
‘it’s non venomous.i call him turing. I found him at back of my house.’
She sighed and replied’you are the weirdest person I have seen’
Days passed .One day when I logged in I found an IM from her.
‘Hey,Mr. Very understanding.I am going to check whether there is a designer up there in the sky’
The message was sent four hours before.I checked her web cam.She was lying motionless ,her body was full of blood.Suddenly two of her room mates entered ,when they saw her they rushed towards her side and checked there pulse.One of them began crying and said in a disaapointed voice
‘She is gone ‘
I turned off system .Two days later Turing also died .Days passed but those memories never died. Everyone needs memories to live but not this kind of memories.2009 seemed like a dreadful year as the previous years.It was a Saturday and I was having fever . I was lying in my bed .During fever your brian brings back all kind of disturbing incidents to you.I saw Sophie’s face
‘Oh dear .lets go to see avatar’
During fever you are subjected to all kind of hallucinations. But that was real .She was standing in front of me.
She continued’ Time is a great healer .Is n’t it ? It never allows us to win .When I cut my veins I forgot to drown my hands in water.So after losing sufficient blood I got unconscious and after sometime the wound clotted. It took a few months to regain full control over the left hand.Time it plays with you .Why are you still playing a chess game you won’t win?’
‘I will reply but what are you going to do after this?’
‘Next year I am planning to move to Switzerland ,They have 85% atheist population .My father is looking groom for me. I don’t want to marry an anonymous person because we follow a barbarian tradition. your course will be over next year? You will also come .isn’t?.Now tell me why playing a game you are sure to lose?’
‘I have lost my queen.playing chess without queen is suicidal.But an advancing pawn can transform itself into a queen.If don’t win,it does not mean that you will fail.I saw another possibility no one else will see,a stalemate ,a draw .So I won’t either win or fail in life.I fighting hard for the draw.Sowhats in your mind?’
‘Lets die a trillion million times together’