Becoming Shailaja

This story is about a man named Sailesh, lean skinny, 5 feet 5 inches height and weighing around 55 kg. Sailesh was living in New Delhi for the last 10 years, along with a good job, a beautiful wife named Sheetal and a 1-year-old son who both fondly named Rahul. There was no shortage of anything in life that suddenly one day Sailesh’s job went away due to some reason. Sailesh had taken a new flat and all of them were already unemployed in the house. Running home was becoming difficult and at the same time worrying about the future, tension of the house’s EMI and thinking about the child, Sailesh’s sleep had disappeared. Despite giving more than 25 interviews for the job in about 2 months, Sailesh could not find a job. No referencing of friends was also working and Sailesh’s bank balance was also slowly ending. Seeing Sheetal and the face of the child in the house, Sailesh was staying very emotional and he started seeing his future dark.

One day, due to excessive tension, Sailesh’s steps turned towards a bar where he used to go to drink sometimes. When Sailesh reached the bar, he met the owner of the bar there for the first time. The owner of that bar was a very well-to-do man, named Balwant. He offered the work to Sailesh, after hearing the offer which made Sailesh conscious, he immediately denied Balwant for that work and started leaving from there, then Balwant gave Sailesh a week’s time to think. Sailesh came straight home from the bar, directly went to his house, opened his laptop and turned on the internet and started looking at the laptop.

Sheetal, “What are you looking at honey? What happened in the interview today? Got a job?”

Sailesh: “No baby, I haven’t got a job yet, but I am applying for a new job, if I get this then our life will be set.”

Sheetal, “God bless you get a job as soon as possible, our son is growing up, his expenses are going up, you try, you will get a job!”

Sailesh sat in front of the laptop and started thinking, “What do I do, I am not getting a job. Seeing grief in Sheetal’s eyes makes me cry. So many companies have returned my resume and the owner of that bar has given me a job.”