May I have your attention please? I looked around for a second. That’s good. This is my graveyard; the third one from left is my grave. Hope you could see my name. If it is not clear, then let me tell you...I’m Rahul Mehra – one of the share market sensations of India, just 27.
What the F? Just 27 and he is claiming that he lives in this graveyard? Why? How? Is this your doubt, just chill…because even I was shocked to know that I was declared dead on 26th January 2010. Exactly 27 years after I came to this awful world. I wish that no one should have an end like mine and that’s why I wanted to narrate my story to this world – THE UNTOLD STORY.
Graveyard, Gjemnes in Norway by Halvard Hatlen Via WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. Shared under CC-BY-SA license.
Born in the slums of Bombay, now known as Mumbai, I studied in Bombay Corporation School and my hard work paid off, as I topped in the state Higher Secondary Examination. With God’s goodwill I joined University of Mumbai (MU) and on the first day of my college life, I saw my dream angel Neha Agarwal – the one and only daughter of Bombay’s Petroleum King. You know, if she would have participated in Miss India competition, then she would have won with all hands down. And yes, I fell in love with her the minute I saw her, but I took 6 months to say a 'HI' to her, then you could imagine the time taken to propose my love to her.
It feels good to be in love but to tell them 'I love you' needs a lot of courage, and I got those only after 2 years and 8 months.
Two years and 8 months? Yes, I manage to propose her only in the last year of my college life. It was a Valentine’s Day, and you know why I took this much time?
Let me tell you…the day after I joined the college, I came to know about her family, I was really astonished after knowing her Dad’s bank balance, I did not even know how to write that in International format but he owned it. Anyway, let him own, because in five years, I am sure of earning at least one rupee more than his bank balance, as I am an intelligent business man than him and that’s why I concentrated more in studies than Neha, and earned money for my Business by taking tuition for the subjects Mathematics & Science - X Std. I topped the university in all semesters and you know I didn't have friends, not even one true friend to share my happiness and shed tears. You know why because people cared for those earned an AUDI car, and they did not have time for poor people. I being poor in everything, stayed poorer in terms of friends as well, and that’s why my hunger for money grew more; the Business man in me wanted money, money & money…nothing else.
But Neha was an exception, my sweet heart, uttered those three beautiful words, which I wanted to hear at least once in my lifetime, and it happened just after I proposed my love to her and, she implanted a kiss on my lips which lasted long enough for a minute. You know I was on cloud nine; but in hours I fell down, may be 1000 meters below the sea level…I found myself in ICU - Sharda Hospital, Mumbai. I was unconscious for seven days and nights, after which, I opened my eyes, only to know that I was badly hit by a car owned by Neha’s father. Actually they tried to run the car over me, but again with God’s goodwill I survived…and my love life did not even last for a day. Neha was sent to her aunt’s house in Australia on the same day.
It took a month for me to get back to normal life, and I had no clue about anything. Actually I was afraid if Mr Father would have ruined my career too, but thank God he did not follow such cheap tactics, still he was a ruthless one. Hardly a month left for my graduation I couldn’t concentrate completely in my studies as I felt guilty for ruining the career of my girl. Somehow I managed to top the University and won the GOLD medal and was awarded as the best student of MU.
The Business man inside me couldn’t wait anymore…I started investing in share market; I bought 5000 units of BROADCOM share at just ten rupees. I also opened a Net Café near MU colored pinkish, which every girl would love to visit at least once. It was the most fascinating business one could do by sitting in a single place and I earned handsomely, as you all know it was the peak time for boys and girls to fall in love through internet chatting.
Three months after, I tripled the money I invested in shares and invested them back on different shares and saved the money which I earned from Net Café and Tuitions. I worked hard. I slept only four hours a day and the rest of the time I made money…days passed like minutes and I earned like a flying horse in a year’s time my bank balance was a one followed by six zeros. I was named as Emerging Share Market King by a Business Magazine. I broke the jinx of share market and I my bank balance became 5 times of what I had in three years. You know I was the happy man despite losing my love as I earned 1 rupee more than Neha’s father current balance. My wish was fulfilled and it happened in just four years. Not only my bank balance grew but also my enemies grew twice as fast as money, they all wanted to dump me down but they couldn’t. And I cared a damn.
Did I ever tell you that I am an athlete? Okay, let me tell you about my sportsmanship...I won in all the track events I participated in my life. When it comes to running, I was the best right from my school days, right from 100 meters to 1500 meters and was also a Marathon winner five times.
I am an energetic person, always fit, flaunting my six packs that every girl would like, but my love, my interest, my passion, my energizer, my positive, my better half and my love is my Neha. I missed her a lot. If Neha was with me, I would kiss her daily till she turns pink. But I…a teardrop fell down my cheeks from my left eye.
Years passed by and my bank balance grew faster till the recession hit USA which affected almost all of the IT based countries. For the first time I faced loss in my business, I sobbed a little but there was no shoulder to share my sadness, not even a single true friend. I meant a friend who would say yes before you ask, “Will you do this for me?” or energize you when you are down, or give you a shoulder whenever necessary and wipe out your tears when needed, but I was very unlucky in relations. When I was a kid, I sobbed for mom; when I was a small boy, I sobbed for friend; when I was a teenager, I sobbed for love; and after that in all the stages I sobbed for money, money and money…nothing else.
After the hard times during recession, markets started rising up, and I used the opportunity and invested in all shares in bulk that were good, but priced low…I sold them when the price went high, at least, ten times more than the price I bought. I gained profit and my bank balance grew unimaginably. And I was the happiest man to be hit by IT recession; but you know, I was totally hit by recession in relationships and never rose up till date :-(
I could still remember the date this happened…December 6, 2009, the same day when the marathon race was conducted in Mumbai, I won the title for the third consecutive year and I was happy for that. I was pretty popular in the News Channels not just as the usual share market king but as the winner of marathon racer for the past three years. I wished New Year to do wonders, and actually it did, first I came to know that Neha was married. I broke down into tears, sobbing in my bed day and night, but tears did not help me. At least I slept for 4 hours a day but after seeing Neha with her husband in New Year party I became sleepless…God cursed me in relationships right from the moment I was born.
I had no shoulder to share the pain…neither my personal secretary nor my servants, all they wanted was money and nothing else. Seconds became years and it was my 27th birthday. Nope, let me put this in an unique way…it was the 1st day I slept permanently…and it happened at 12 minutes, 12 seconds past midnight, exactly the same time I was born .
On 26th Jan 2010, around eight in the morning, my secretary phoned me on my mobile a couple of times, after which the knocked the door several times, since it did not help they broke the door only to realize that I slept peacefully. They were shocked…my secretary called emergency and took me to nearby hospital, where doctors declared me dead. All of a sudden I became headlines and this time for one final time. “JUST IN: Share Market King Rahul committed suicide, suspected love failure.”
Then I was taken to the Sharda Hospital where they informed press reporters that I was died of heart attack. What the Fuck? I was died of heart attack? I? Me? How is it possible? I am a fit, energetic person, then how come I am victim of cardiac arrest? Puzzled!
A 27-year-old marathon runner died of heart attack. How did it happen? The story behind Rahul’s death; New channels buzzed. Two people are responsible for you to come into this world, and we call them as parents; and after death four people is responsible to carry you to graveyard. In most cases, they know the former, but in my case, I do not know either the former or the latter. And I do not have anyone to shed tears for me, not even Neha. Doctors kept me in mortuary to do a case study to find out the reason behind my death. And I stayed in Headlines for the next two days, after which, just like all hot news in my country, I became nothing. All my money went to Child is God’s Charity and Mother Teresa Educational Fund as per my will, which I had registered years before.
A week later in Times Now, Rahul Mehra – the Share Market King died due to lack of sleep, he slept four hours a day which generated a liquid in lungs that hardened the muscle, which became the root cause of the cardiac arrest, along with depression of cursed relationship. After hearing this I shed tears, I ran for money, money and money without actually caring about me. And I had no one to care for me; I sobbed for relationships. I wonder why God scribbled my story this way and I will surely ask him why. I wanted to share my story to all the people in this world as THE UNTOLD STORY Lack of sleep and cursed relationship being the cause of my death.
This post is a part of "Billion Hearts Beating" contest organized by IndiBlogger in association with "Billion Hearts Beating Website".
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OMG u have this skill when it comes to fiction...totally loved it....made me wish to write fiction often too....truly loved it .....do come up with a novel one day...it will do great!
ReplyDeleteStory was truly heartbreaking...run for things u need in future make us forget living in moments and present and we forget in such race we might never reach the future.....hard but true!
@ Scribbling Girl
ReplyDeleteOMG ! You made my day, I was sleepless after a wrost day in office but you made me smile, thanks for your kind words. I do reveal a secret, am penning down one, "A START TO THE FULL STOP!" - A love story with unexpected twists, you can read the gist of the story here
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I never knew that you can write this kind of fiction and to this extend. Totally loved it..You are an Awesome Writer !
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Wonderful post! I Love to take the pledge and spread it to all my friends.
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Nice Post!! and the narration too is extremely interesting
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I just love the way this untold story has been narrated . I felt like watchin a movie when i was reading it . It was extremely good.
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Awesome!You r a great writer ....:)
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This is a great piece of work.!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis story made me to take the Pledge, “To Get Enough Sleep”, and love to save my heart.
I also wish to join the FaceBook Campaign
Hmmm... very well narrated... the ending part was good.....
ReplyDeleteThe Untold Story had an unexpected ending....
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Here it goes,
I take the pledge "Get enough sleep" and i follow it from this moment.
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Very well naraated, ending was very sad and this post is creating a awareness for sure, i am taking the pledge...
ReplyDeleteSaravana! The narration was good and presented well.
ReplyDeleteI wish to pledge "I will follow proper sleeping schedule" and save my heart.
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@ priya
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Inspired by your write up and also as a fellow Indian I took the pledge. Hatts off to Billion Heart Beating..
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The way you have written made me got involved into the story.
ReplyDeleteKeep it up.
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Hey I have read many stories that u wrote, but till date this is the one which i liked the most.
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Thanks for the wishes Sri, hoping to better myself more and also thanks for the pledge.
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Hey ! I really like your style of writing...dramatic and persuasive.
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This is a nice story.You have captured all the drama of share market really nicely.Death due to less sleep! Ohh..I must take the oath and fulfill it with all my heart to stop it's failuar!!
ReplyDelete@ pra
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I thought it is real,
ReplyDeletewhat a unique and heart-warm piece.
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I need to be inspired by someone who is intelligent and who knows how to use language. Here is the one who inspired me.
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The story was awesome.
ReplyDeleteThe starting was really good and different too.
Such a story will caution even a very careless person, due to the way you have taken it.
I am sure you will have lots of such stories in pipe line. Eagerly waiting for them.
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Beautiful Narration . Was very interesting to read . I really enjoyed this Untold Story . Hope everyone will understand the importance of sleep after readin this . Keep writing many untold stories like this . I wish thet the pledge taken by everyone will surely bring a change in everyone's life . All the Best !!! Keep Rocking !!!!
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The story is really good. Well narrated....
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The thought of love stories itself bore me. I cant believe I read your whole post, liked it, voted for you on indi and now leaving a comment.
ReplyDeleteThe reason for my actions is definitely good writing and apart from which bringing out a good cause from a beautiful love story.
Hats off to you Mr. SIS.
@ Zainab Urooj
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Wat a good message to all!!!!
ReplyDeleteThough a guy lost his life, he left back a wanted message to the world.. nice story man.. keep writing such stories........
@ selva
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Thanks for such a good story...
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A wonderful story... well narrated. i loved it..
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hey friend, I like to sleep very much and I can sleep for hours even after the dawn :)
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Hi Saravana,
ReplyDeleteThe narration of the story was too gud.....
Ur thought to tell the story from the dead person is nice....
Hey well narrated...
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And i took the pledge also and will make sure i follow it...
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Hi Saravana,
ReplyDeleteIt s a awesome story!!
Ending was really unexpected!!
u r doing a great Job :)
Keep it up... and
All the very best for future :) :)
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Nice one..the story is well written..Keep moving, all the best.
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It's really an untold story and you made it again. All the best.
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The title is interesting and that is what made me curious to read the story...The Untold Story is finally told....u are brilliant...keep rocking...
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Someone is Special
even i sleep only four hours a day :-o i dont feel sleepy at all :-o
ReplyDelete@ shweta
ReplyDeleteeven i sleep only four hours a day :-o i dont feel sleepy at all :-o
That's really bad.. please sleep properly.. and thanks for stopping by..
Someone is Special