Clarion

Paul had recently given his body to be a statistic bandwagon of morose and sorrowful who found euthanasia to be their solution to all their grievance in life. A mere statistic now, Paul’s body was disposed off in the graveyard of his country, which legalized the very practice of mercy-killing. He travelled neither to hell nor to paradise. Instead, he felt himself transported to a place called ‘WEAK of HEARTS’. Every poor soul who sought euthanasia as the problem to all their solutions where crying, whining, devastated - pleading to go back to the world they had not so easily left when their wishes were fulfilled. Someone saw the plight of their parents, craving to go back once more to see them smile. Someone was numb with sorrow for the lover – the sweet  boy she lost because she thought he didn’t care for her. So Paul, realizing his mistake, went back to earth through another body, to go into heaven by being good and kind.

                After his soul’s second host died, he saw that there was no heaven – it was all a hoax. There was no such thing as paradise. And, hell – well, sure was hell. Realizing that earth was the best option, albeit its many shortcomings, he went back to earth to do what he was doing, live.

--Rishov Paul

Department of English

UG 1