Night of 14 December, 02:00 AM.
"How many did you saw ? " Megha , Gaurav's online friend ,living in Delhi asked excitedly through the phone.
He replied smugly " Ugh, not that many ,it was just my fourteenth one " giggling while holding the speaker.
" You fucking lucky bastard , I was the one who told you about today's meteor shower and I can't see a single star in the polluted sky of Delhi. " Megha replied with voice full of envy and mirth.
Today is the night of meteor shower where one can see lots of starry moment from midnight to early morning hours.
Megha a stupid camera girls has been waiting for it to wath the moment with her own eyes and she told all her friends about it so they can enjoy it too from their place.
And Gaurav was the only one who responded to her head and watched stars with her , alight from distance on video call.
" So what did you wish ? " Asked Megha from other side.
" You know what would I have wished for and anyways it's not supposed to be told to anyone, otherwise wishes won't be fulfilled. " Gaurav sighed , he was a bit dul nowadays.
" Come on Gaurav yrr it's been years ,it was just a btech degree. Shit happens,there are thousands or even lakhs of students who drops out of their college. " Megha said with some anger
Gaurav looking away from the sky finally looked at her face through blue screen lighting shining on his handsome face with glasses reflecting the light. " First thing there is no way lakhs of student are dropping out because that many students are getting not even getting admission. And second I don't really care about it either it's been tear years and I am mature enough to not waste away life in regrets"
Yes he was mature now but regretfull he was.
"It just that I could have been so much more if I had not wasted those five years of my life."
Megha sighed from other side ,rubbing her forehead " Gaurav ,you achieved your dreams even after that failure didn't you ? , you got the govt job , you married to your love Priti who loves to feed you with her own hands . You have more money then ever. What else you can desire. Everything is perfect"
Megha was proper delhi girl , modern , pretty maybe not that much but she made up for with it with style and confidence. Ugh also with her perfect hourglass figure , her words not mine.
" Ohh then tell me why did you attempted so 5 times for neet to become a doctor. And even not creaking it in your 5th attempt ,even thought you said you would let go of your obsession. You dropped out of your nursing college and you still attempted 6 th attempt to finally creak it luckily. And here you are in your final year of mbbs " Gaurav said agitally, clear more then little burned
Megha looked at him with dead eyes
" Luckily , that's what you think about all my efforts . Waah Gaurav yrr waah ... Thank you for this "
" Then think from my perspective too , I had all so much potential I could have been an software engineer at Microsoft or Google or I could have become entrepreneur or maybe some foreign minister atleast , If not for that damn corona lockdown " Gaurav said with slamming his hand on ground, no buildings nearby. He came to a abondende t cricket ground where are no lights only dark to see the stars.
Megha sighed and said with some wieght in her voice " Gaurav wake up , this is life not everything goes according to plan. You can't have everything. Sometimes you need to learn to live with your regrets and learn let go of past. Otherwise you won't ever be happy and --- "
" Megha , it's already midnight and mom is telling you to sleep already" came a high pitch voice of Rimmo , megha's little cute sister.
Gaurav looked at her through screen " yeah you should go now and it's quite late and whatever I don't wanna listen to your nonsense"
Megha again sighed " neither do I , good night " and hanged up the call.
02 : 43: 51 hours
Gaurav looked at the screen which was showing their talk time. She have been his friends since his early years when he was recovering from his five years of
depression.
He was one of the victims of corona lockdown,not benifitiors. He wastes his time in corona and then got so depressed for reason he himself never understoos.
2019 to 2024 , that was the worst period or his life but he recovered, he set his damn life back again ,loved again , got a govt job everyone would die for. Got respect as his parents wished for. Married a girl who loves him damn too much. Have a cute daughter and everything a man desire for. Everything a man desire for.
All of this in damn 6 years it was 2031 , December 14 today.
He was good enough ,not great but definitely better then most. He was genius after all. Just a failed one ...
He looks up at the sky and sees a star fall through beautiful night sk. he smiled and made a wish " I wish I can go back in time because I want to live my life again to my fullfill my potential "
And as if his wish was acknowledged the world ,the sky flashed for a milisecond. Star which was falling straight suddenly turned it's direction like a drifting car and started falling towarde him straight.
" OHHH FUCKING HELL ! JUST KILL ME "
Gaurav only saw blinding light and then BOOM
Next day there was a news on tv " see how Pm modi is loved in shikago ,just like Swami Vivekananda through speech"
Yeah typical Indian media useless .. you guys hope too much.
But all is not lost. In a small time conspicuous newspaper there was an article on first page whose headinh was ... Star fall goes wrong ... Meteor falls on a guy stargazing . Casualty one.
Name and identity are not confirmed.
Yeah govt authorities are still useless.
You guys hope too much 😮💨.