The lucky Friday

The lucky Friday

                    Curiosity kills the cat – a very old proverb. I never believed it. But some things you never believe till you experience themselves. It was last Friday that taught me the lesson once again.
It happened so that Niru – the hero of this story was working in the night shift that day. It was around 12.30 a.m. when I think he finished his work. He seemed to be relieved from the tension he was bearing since an hour or so. Although the work was over, his shift was going to be till 2.30 that day… It was Friday, since not 13th, it proved to be very much lucky for both of us.

                    Niru soon got bored with the mails. The time was very much wrong to call up someone just for the sake of time pass. I think this poor chap doesn’t even have a girlfriend to call up at any point of time.

                    That’s why he soon started looking for some other ways to pass the time. He started reading a novel. Now it was my turn to get bored. I had no other work to do. There was no one else on the floor. So I started playing my old games. I just switched on a monitor. Again switched it off, picked up a phone and called up to the neighboring extension on and so on. It was really funny to pass time like this with no one getting much curious about the things happening here. Thank god for the full moon’s night that time because of which I was getting more and more fun doing this but soon I was bored even of that. I was also not feeling much sleepy that day so I decided to start playing with the chairs. I was extreme cautious in not making even the smallest sound which would have disturbed Niru… but after all I am not GOD… mistakes were bound to happen…

                    One of the chairs I was swirling round and round suddenly went out of control and bumped on the wall beside it. A big sound… and definitely Niru was disturbed. He rose from his chair, looked at the direction of sound but found no one. He was amazed. He left his book on the table and came towards the chair I was playing with. The chair was still swirling round and round. He was puzzled and decided to inspect what had really happened there and that’s where he made a mistake of his lifetime….

                    It was full moon’s night. I prayed for him to come as near to the chair as possible. The chair could have been the medium for us. He came near to chair and even moon was just about to get behind a cloud when I used all my strength and just pushed him aside which made him to fall down. He looked lot more puzzled than before. I was constantly looking at the moon from the window. This was a golden chance for me. ‘I should make a quick move before he gets up alone just that this moon should come out of the clouds’, I thought.

                    Just duration of around 2 seconds, but it seemed to me like 2 years…When the moon was out from behind the clouds revealing a full cute circle, somehow I felt charged, a new feeling entered me. Niru was still lying there, trying desperately to get up. I think he had a major injury when he fell down. I went to him, hoping that the moon will still be out of the clouds at least for some time to help me out of this situation.


                    “Niru, take my hand and try to get up.”, I said. He looked puzzled. Someone suddenly arising from nowhere and offering help that too by calling you by your pet-name without any prior introduction would definitely scare anyone.

                    “Don’t be afraid. Just take my hand and get up.” Though reluctantly he gave me his hand to get up and Niranjan Khandekar performed probably just last mistake of his life. As soon as he accepted my help, he got up very much smoothly but that was not all. Something very very mysterious happened. I could see myself getting into his body and his soul coming out of it… obviously to make a new entry, there has to be some empty space…

                    Last expressions I could see on his face were that of getting puzzled, being afraid of something unknown but I am sure as soon as he must have understood the transformation, he must have felt definitely better. The same way I had felt around 3-4 months ago when in a very much similar situation, a strange soul had entered my body throwing me out.


                    It had felt bad, even worse at times to see your own body in someone else’s control. There were lots of people around me but none of them was able to communicate with me. It was worst especially when I could see my body with me outta it behaving very much like me. Being such a roaming soul without his own personal body and that too when the time for death for the body hadn’t yet arrived. It was boring at times because of the loneliness, but still I enjoyed it quite a lot. For temporary reasons I had achieved freedom from the boring works of coding, debugging and so on, but after all I was a soul of a software engineer and at times felt a real urge to do some programming work… but that was not possible at all.

                    Soon I had realized that in a full moon’s night especially when the moon is not covered by the clouds, I gain some powers, though temporarily, I can touch things, I can interact with them, I can take any form, I can talk to people. I tried to do so earlier, but the guys around me just fled away thinking of the tiredness making them to face the hallucinations.
Sooner I started roaming around the new buildings nearby. There were lots of friends there. Although all souls looked similar, some were completely different in appearance. These ones had some divine powers. One of such divine ones taught me the art of getting into a new body. Just the condition was that the body in which my so-called re-incarnation was to happen should have come forward to take my help in some case where in return I was allowed to take up that body.

                    God bless the brave guy Niru. He rescued me. I am happy. Now I have got a new body. I liked it. Of course I don’t have much other option now because when I entered this body somehow I just forgot the technique of making my soul free or exchanging from one body to the other. Whatever that might be… but now I have started loving this body. I was a bit tensed that how I was going cope-up with daily life of Niru, because I was not at all aware of his personal life but his brain helped me a lot. No one has yet even thought of the soul getting changed.

                    I am sure Niru can see me… I mean his real soul. He must be happy though that now he is completely free of the boring things of this mortal world. He will enjoy it for some days. As soon as he gets to know about the divine souls, he also will get the technique of re-incarnating into another body and will be back with some other body. After all it’s just a matter of a few weeks probably.

                    Really the Friday was very much lucky. I got a new body and Niru became free temporarily though from the cruel mortal world. He will soon find a new body and start his life once again. Really it’s rightly said… whatever happens… it happens for your good only.