Rehan's Story

Episode 1

Rehan is an engineer, one of those who love to smell machines and who still don’t swear by codes and programs. He is an engineer of those good old times, yet he is young, very young. He has graduated from one of reputed colleges of India. A bright young man he has made his hands dirty in an automobile company that too in an era when they all coaxed him 2 join a software firm. “Get cushioned in an air conditioned office and travel by swanky cars, that’s life dude” His concerned friends used to advise him. Rehan’s dad was a decent man, but very timid person he was. It was difficult for him to believe that his bright son can let go what the whole world was glued to and young man prefers to smell paints and mobil oil to keyboards and thrills of writing ubiquitous codes.

What our Rehan is doing now? A young man of 25, armed with an experience of 3 years he is bit confused now. Where should I head to? What is purpose of my life? This questions haunt our protagonist as he suffers from what we all call “Mid life crisis” . Yeah mid life crisis starts at 25 now. A young man who as a teen swore by likes of Howard Roarks , has lost steam now. “Should I also pursue an MBA just as they all do?” he thinks aloud. Rehan knows that MBA is just mirage and doing it wont make him qualified in real sense.” Yeah it may make me earn better, I can afford goodies in life but is this all I want?” oh our man is as confused as our aam janta who keep sending hung parliament after every election.

Oh is the remote life causing all the trouble? Of course he has to be on his toes, keep running from one place to another to meet vendors and yeah he is mostly away from luxuries a city life love to pamper you with. Rehan listens to an Atif song and is lost somewhere down the memory lane, getting nostalgic he thinks of good old engineering days, He misses them all, his gang—Abhi, Trisha, Sandeep, Vinny, Aakansha and yeah best of them all his bosom pal Supriya. And a faint smile escapes his lips. Oh wistful thinking not again and he hears giving a slight admonishment to himself.

Rehan leaves the day with a note. I want to know the real meaning of life. I want to know if I can make a difference to others . Would some one be happy if he/she sees me overjoyed or would my loss be unbearable to some one? Thinking all this , leaves his eyes heavy and another night is spent on couch with a sinking insatiable feeling..

Posted by Ruchir at 7/19/2007 04:05:00 AM