Outline

The boy's name was Prabhu. He decided to end his life as he felt he lost everything and there was no point in living ahead. These thoughts got him to a nearby railway station. As he reached there, there was a babble of noise. Passengers, Sellers, and many others were moving around everywhere. To his eyes, everybody seemed to be very happy and content. He thought that he was the only unlucky and useless person in the world.

 "Today is the last day of my life". He thought to himself and sat on a platform chair cursing his inabilities and inadequacies. He had a lot of dreams like everyone but he couldn't accomplish any of them and couldn't even take care of his parents. He dreamt of becoming an actor but he got exhausted by facing the rejections and

despise from the auditioners. It was his parents who aspired more than him to seetheir son as a superstar. But now they are no more.

Lilly, his girlfriend. She was the only relief from his struggles. But recently she got married off to another person.His house got confiscated. He tried to get other jobs according to his degree. But the series of misfortunes defeated him and got him to a railway station seeking death. But that railway platform became the platform of his life's turning point. There he met a man who changed his life and his perspectives.

“Lokesh kumar”

Who was he? How he changed Prabhu's life? Where did he come? Let's go through the story.

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Time 10.00 pm Udaipur Railway station, India

The Delhi Express scheduled at 10 pm also passed by. Slowly the platform became less crowded. After a while, the ticket counter also closed. Prabhu continued to sit on the platform chair without any intention to get up. He was a dark-skinned lean young boy who was not more than 25 years of age. He looked extremely sad and tired. With his red puffy eyes, he had been staring at the railway track itself for long hours. He wasn't listening to anything around him. It was evident that his mind was miles away from his body. However, he was in good attire. His costumes and the file that he had placed on his lap indicated that he was on the way back after attending a failed interview.

By this time street dogs had begun to wander through the platform. Other than some night-duty workers and beggars, the platform was empty. The sounds of crickets and the howls of dogs intensified the eerie silence of the night. But he was still there on the same chair, staring at the railway track.

Suddenly he deflected his head by hearing the horn of a train from a long distance. It was then he became conscious about the place and the time where he had been sitting for the last few hours. He looked around. Silence everywhere. His eyes searched for the platform clock. He startled. The time was around 11.30

He remembered the scene of hustle and bustle at the station when he arrived there in the evening. Back then...what all happened? He couldn't recall anything after that. With the file securely holding it to his chest, He soon got up from the chair and headed to the verge of the platform. As he heard the sound of the train from near. He closed his eyes, soon his heartbeat drastically surged, Hands trembled, throat dried and his legs collided with each other.

“Within a minute train will pass through this platform”.

Yes, "I must die". "I don't want to live anymore".

"I lost everything and couldn't achieve anything in life".

"I'm a burden to this world".

“There is no meaning to live ahead”. “I have no one here”. “I want to go near my parents”.

When the train passes "I will jump to the track". I will do it.

In that frustration and anger, he thought to himself. In a moment his entire life flashed in front of his eyes.

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