Friday, December 26, 2008

60. A Prisoner's dilemma

Lets just say that there's this prisoner, lets call him Pappu. Now, our Pappu serves a two-year sentence in a  dingy, over-crowded  facility called the 'Innovative Molesters and Torturers' demented center,where the in-mates are a bunch of frustrated criminals. They've all been put in for crimes ranging from petty stuff like 'following the crowd', 'excessive drinking before the day of crime' to major ones like kidnaps and molestation. The general pop. there vent out their anger by howling (from their cells)at night, stealing each others' belongings and even exercising the pleasure of sodomizing a few weak members of their brethren(whenever time permits).

Amidst these hysterical crackpots, there are a few sensible heads who got caught in the line of fire and so were arrested and thrown into this facility. Pappu initially has a hard time adjusting to the new prison. As time passes, he makes friends with a few of the good people over there, which makes the ordeal a bit less painful.

But here's the deal. The times that were the hardest are the ones that one remembers the most. Pappu wants to forget that these two years ever happened to him. He just wants to wake up and find himself out of prison again. But since it is here that he has been screwed the most, he isn't able to erase these memories so easily. Moreover, when he thinks of the few good times he has had in prison, of the few goodfellas he hung around with, that 'good' feel gets engulfed by the hatred for the facility, which makes the whole 'memory-recollection process' dole out a pretty twisted emotion. Pappu wants to retain the good memories but not at the expense of retaining the traumatic ones. That's his dilemma.

2 comments:

puneet varma said...

Pappu pass hojayegaa re.. don't worry!!
u've got the lion king and frogs for company anyway ;)

Abhishek Behera said...

Every one learns to cope up. Forgetting or remembering is not in our hands. Dust accumulates over memories. But suddenly a passing wind just brings past face-to-face.

(well said Puneet!) "Pappu pass hojayega re!!!!!!!"