Puli Raja

Dear Saikors,

I have a confession to make. Where else can I speak out frankly and confess that I had sinned, but to our Saikorian family? I made a terrible mistake. At this age, I should have not even thought of it. But it just happened. There was no second chance. Now it clearly shows on the screen that I have “AIDS” 

Just one mistake and I am doomed. Doomed with my family, I can no longer be as free with them as before. I lost all contacts with them. Now I have nothing in common with them. I can’t reach out to them as before.  

It is a depressing feeling of a ‘let down’. Life really sucks.

I should have shown some restraint at that moment. My life was going on smooth till that very moment. Now my mind and the address book is a total blank. I lost everything that I cherished. The sweet memories that I stored are no longer there. It is a similar feeling of some one who lost everything he had after his house is gutted down in a fire.

My friends will definitely shun me. Those, who have enjoyed similar experiences with me before will also look down upon me. I will be called a ‘Puliraja” 

The society as a whole will boycott me, the feeling of loneliness hurts. I plead to all of you to try and understand me. We are after all MEN, susceptible to temptations. I can no longer take a moral high ground and preach to anyone, including my children.

But, I take this opportunity to tell all my friends, younger and older to be very careful. Life has so much to offer that we should not be tempted by small things and fall for them.

It all happened this way. It was a similar day as any other. I woke up and sat in front of my computer. The door bell rang and I opened the door. It was my maid; she looked lovely and beautiful that day. Maybe, when your life is good everything looks good too.

I went back to my computer and was checking my mail. 29 of them fresh and unread.

Normally I would read mails from our group first, but this time something attracted me. A sweet name “Suzane Mathew”. It had just ‘HI’ in the subject. I had a female friend from Kerala with a similar name, and so I was excited. Opened it first. I was initially disappointed because this Mathew is not the one I longed for. But the mail said that it would enlarge a part of body (which is of no consequence to me anyway) for free. There was a link that I had to click and “whao” my body part will enlarge automatically. I knew that it was funny, it was impossible, but I was tempted to try. For a few seconds my thoughts fought with themselves, whether to click or not. But my right pointing finger did not listen, it clicked the mouse.

And “Whoos” “Bang” and what not, my anti virus popped out, changed from green to red and started to blink and shiver. I knew that something was terribly wrong, I tried to click everything open to shut down, but I was doomed. My anti virus just gave way meekly and fell dead like a damp squib. My monitor went blank. I too went blank. Then came a sign on my monitor “Now you have AIDS” (All Important Data Screwed)

Damn that virus. Damn Suzane Mathew.