A Kashti of a Saaheel... Not the other way around

The Boy was on hospital bed when the girl whom he loves came to see him. He was sleeping. The room was absolutely quiet, one can listen to him breath. The only sound apart from it was the beeping of the electronic machineries which were helping him breathe through the tube inserted into his nose. She moved softly and sat on the chair beside the bed. She leaned forward and took his hand into hers.

“Mom?” says boy eyes still closed.

“It’s me” girl replies softly.

Recognizing the familiar voice boy opens his eyes. Every boy looks for his mother in a girl. Well, the moment suggests perhaps the choice of the boy was spot on. “You here?” he asks smiling at her.

“I came to see you” she says with a little guilt.

“Ohh really! Thank you so much” taunts her.

"Saaheel! I am so sorry for that day” she was referring to the day when there was the inauguration of boy’s dream, his own dancing academy & trying to make it even special the boy proposed to the girl for marriage. But the girl rejected the proposal and left the place arrogantly. The life was good to the boy until the girl he wants to marry with refused him & the very next day he was diagnosed with the life-threatening disease.

“Kashti, the reason why I’ve loved u bcoz you always say what u think and what u feel. You bravely take your stand. That day u said what was truth and I can’t be mad at you for the reason I love you. Don’t be guilty I am not here because of you. You were right” the boy was trying to be practical.

“No, I wasn’t” looking down the girl continued “There were some problems.”

“Were?” He shrugged.

“I mean there still are” the girl’s still unsure.

Boy laughs, “There are always going to be problems in life. But the question is whether u want to control them or let them control u.” looking away at the window he continued “Four years ago I was wondering what the hell I was doing in my life. My career, my future was at stake. That’s all sorted. But now I have tumor and my life’s at stake. U can’t stop problems coming your way you can only decide to face or show back at them. And when you decide you give yourself strength to back your decision”

The girl holding his hand again, “I understand.”

“I am sure u do and everyone does. It was u once told me one should live happy not long.”

“I know. You are right and that is why I am here. To decide” still holding his hand the girl was looking deep into his eyes with a tear on the verge of falling off her lashes.  “To decide that I want to spend my entire life with you. However long or short may it be” now the tears were really pouring down her cheeks while none being there in the boy’s eyes. The girl he wants to marry now is ready to spend her life with him, but the boy’s thoughts were like he doesn’t have the life anymore.  With the determined voice she continued “And now I want u to decide and fight this bloody cancer. For me. For us”. It’s not the disease but the will not to live that kills us. The words from girl lit up the will in boy to live again. he could decide. he could fight. and his courage was too strong for cancer cells to beat. He could live a happy with love of his life his. It wasn't Kashti who found a Saheel but the other way around...

Life threatening diseases are called life threatening and not life finishing bcoz they just threaten you. now it's up to you to show courage and fight them or to bow down. ultimately, it's the will not to live is going to kill you not the disease itself.