Thank you for smoking ...

It was a chill Sunday of January month in Allahabad. Alfred Park, which is well known as Company Garden in Allahabad, had visitors. Most of them were frequent and regular. Visitors were from different age groups, status and communities. They all come to have some physical exercises which include walking, running, jumping, jogging etc. A good percent of them were facing disease like diabetes, high/low blood pressure and excess of weight. Among all the mentioned diseases, the interesting one is the excess of weight. The person had worked hard to gain the excess of weight unknowingly. He had attended too many parties of marriage, birthdays and other occasions in past days. Now he is paying interest for the hard work. There were children enjoying the baby rides and green rush lawn.

            There was a track somehow like a gallery having bushes on both sides. That particular part of the park had not that much people. A person of about 35 years old was busy in walking on the running track. He was smoking cigarette and also enjoying some rock music on his smart phone. A boy of around 10 years old was also walking on the track behind the person. The boy was on few meters distance. When the smoke came to the boy, he tried to stop the person from there by a shout. Since the person was lost in the loud music, the shout resulted nothing.The boy was not feeling comfortable. He started to run to his power. Very soon he had overtaken the person. After he reached to a reasonable distance from the person, he stopped. The Person had finished his cigarette, and sat on a bench .He also stopped the music. Then a conversation started between the Boy and the Person.

The boy: “Thank you Sir!” .The Person was confused and thought for a second. The person: “Why are you thanking me?” .The boy: “Sir you inspired me to become a great runner of the future.” The person: “How did I inspire you to be a runner?”  .The Boy: “Before today I was just a slow walker. But after having smell of your power smoke, I have to be fast like a runner to overtake the cigarette smoke!” The Boy added: “May be In future I shall win a Gold medal for my Country if I follow you for next few years. It’s all because of your smoking. I don’t know what benefit and in what way you are getting by smoking but a warm thanks from me to you”. The Boy smiled, shook the hand and went from there. The person was like statue. He was feeling all the heat, tobacco and smoke he had gained through out his life by smoking. He also realized the person who suffered less or more by his smoking. He had injured his health as well as his friends and other known ones.