‘You kissed her?’ asked Pattric from his friend Samules
about his ex love affair.
‘No, I never did.’ Samules replied looking elsewhere shaking
his head.
There was silence for few minutes. Then Samules said with a
sense of an awkward conscience: ‘I should have done that. But to be honest, I wanted
to be a good boy in her eyes.’
‘What about her present boyfriend? Doesn’t he kiss her nor
he has any sexual desires towards her?’ Pattric asked disappointingly.
‘Yes. He does everything what a boyfriend does. In the
corner seats mostly, as confirmed by few common college friends.’ Samules said
pretending that he doesn’t care what her ex is into. But in reality he did, Samules’
eyes were the witness.
Pattric could sense that his friend is feeling bad for her
ex. He narrated a story:
“In the ancient days, in an Indian village, there lived the
most venomous snake of that time, ‘the
king cobra’. The king cobra used to roam around the village for his prey
and for that he needs to kill the game and drag it to death with his poisonous
venom. The villagers were very afraid of him that time. And the news speeded
soon to the neighbour villages.
One fine day, the cobra thought what he was doing is evil
and it is not good to kill anybody. The king cobra decided not to bite any prey
or human. He goes to find food for him into the village not killing anyone, people
started to throw stones on him and somehow he saved his life being half-dead. On
the way to his rat hole, he met a saint. The saint asked him, ‘who made his
condition like this and why?’ The king cobra told him the whole story. The saint
said to the king cobra:
‘The venom is gifted to you so that you can survive on this
earth between the cruel people. And if you think killing is evil, and then you’re
right my mate. But don’t let the people to kill you. The fear of your venom
must prevail.’
‘I didn’t understand what you are saying mahatma.’ The cobra
said blankly.
‘You don’t have to kill people but make them afraid of you,
raise your fangs towards them. Make them remember that you are still the most
venomous king cobra.’ the saint said smilingly.”
Samules smiled at Pattric.
At last Pattric said, ‘you didn’t kissed her, but you could
have let her know that you can still kiss her and do something more for her
desires.’
