#148 Cosmopolitan- Akhil Sharma
Gopal Maurya has lost his family. He daughter moved to
Germany to live with her boyfriend and his wife left him to follow a guru in
India. He treats these events as if they have died, and has become a widower.
“But the swiftness with which the dense absence on the other
side of his bed unknotted and evaporated made him wonder whether he ad ever
loved his wife.”
He is depressed and has become antisocial:
“At one point, around Christmas, he went to a dinner party,
but he did not enjoy it. He found that he was not curious about other people’s
lives and did not want to talk about his own.”
When you spend 30 years with someone, and now have nobody
there but yourself, life can get confusing. Without work, friends, or a reason
to get out of bed, who are you? When a divorcee next door enter Mr. Maurya’s
life, things turn around, but for the right reasons?
“He believed that something would soon be said or done to
delay Mrs. Shaw’s departure, for certainly God could not leave him alone again.”
The story is a cold one, probably a bit too long for what it
had to say.
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