There is no denying the fact that all of us have passions. We are passionate about something or the other but there is even no denying the fact that at some point of time, most of us have to give up on our passions and take up things that we might not like, just so that we can make the lives of people around us better. My story is just a little more animated representation of what many of us go through when we are forced to give up upon what we love doing the most. This is my take on what happens when someone’s personality is taken away.
In an office cabin, a man (30 years old, slight paunch, disheveled hair, sleeves up, totally wrecked) is leaning on his desk with a coffee in one hand and cigarette in the other. He’s all sweaty instead of the Air Conditioner in the room. His head is down and there is dim light in the cabin (constant sound of howling, taunting, screaming can be heard in the background. It’s as if someone’s giving constant ultimatum of all sorts could be felt haunting his head).
He closes his eyes and he is taken some 8 years back, when he was a young energetic muscular lad, these instances are still blurry (in this blurry scene there’s a guitar that’s playing some heavy passionate music as if some heavy weight champion is going to arrive and it’s a scene where only the lower part of the character is visible, the character’s wearing a rough jeans and sharp boots). As he’s reminded of this scene there’s a smirk across his face, there’s a transition from the slight smile to something more intense when he goes 4 years back and there’s again sound of scolding by his mother, and a lot of explaining by a male voice (probably father.
Suddenly his cabin’s door is banged open and a middle aged man enters and starts shouting:
Boss: “Get one thing straight and clear … if, you don’t give me my targets, I’ll dart your ass off !”. (There is a slow motion and all the gestures and whatever the boss is saying appears in that form) during all this Amy has kept his head down, he slowly raises his head. A light shade of his face is in the dark and the latter has brightness.
He then smirks like a ruthless devil. The boss is slightly scared and confused. He’s quite startled at this gesture of his subordinate.
Boss: “I’mmm… aaaa.. giving you an ultimatum .. ok?” (while he speaks Amy slowly advances towards his boss and holds the cigarette in between his thumb and the index finger), he then smokes a puff at his boss and throws his cigarette that lands on the “TARGET SHEET” and he then says with a smirk “you’re fired ….hahahaha”
Suddenly there’s voice from behind
Boss: “What are you thinking you dumb fool? … 2 days or you’re putting down your papers (his phone rings and he says , oh! Yes sir, it’ll be done) and as he moves out he symbols two days and my eyes are on you!!! The same target sheet is seen brushing of the ash from his shoulders and it mocks the same expression of his boss at him. Amy is left with acidic tears in eyes and he unwilling marks his way towards a pile of files which were slammed on his table.
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