Life,s Puzzle

The garden was filled with many people of different kinds. Some were old while some were kids. In the midst rose a fountain which gave a cold breeze to the people in the garden. A 9 year old girl noticed a group of college guys having fun. They were laughing at things that the girl couldn’t understand. She looked at them and felt that her own world was not the one she liked. Regular home works crept into her dreams and killed her sleep sometimes. “I wanna be happy like them and it can happen only when i am a grown up” saying she took her way. Among the group of the guys that were having fun was a guy who was interested in a queer looking man seated in front of their bench. The man looked satisfied and self content. His face shone with a dazzling light that only people who had achieved greatness have. The boy looked at the man and then within him. ” I am wasting my time chit chatting with my friends for no reason, may be i should do something that will make me a well known person in the society” With this thought the boy’s heart became heavy and he again joined with his friends in some talks. The old man who was satisfied till now looked at the happy smiles and laughters of those young bloods. Everything was there waiting for him. All he wanted was to blink and the thing was before him. His money gave him everything but not his childhood. He gave up everything in making money but his heart was not satisfied although his body was. “Life is a puzzle” thought the old man and gazed at those people laughing and smiling.