Dream of Sale - 01

On one day, I returned home from a work - a bit exhausted – so, (obviously) went directly into my bedroom, swung away (not literally-LoL) my office bag and jumped into a bed. It was around 4 pm in the afternoon – of course its on the verge of evening. Within just a couple of minutes my eyes closed down automatically. There was nobody in house (yes except me). I fell asleep instantly and found myself in my sweet (later to be devastating) dream.

“Sell fifty thousand October contracts”- a broker was shouting (horribly) on phone.  I could only imagined the (very) poor guy or girl which might be on the other side of the phone. I did not really like that person so decided to shift myself a bit aside. “That's horrendous. Sell it, Sell everything”- the second man was speaking loudly with his broker. Later, hardly a minute would have passed, that first guy again shouted loudly, “Listen Joe, If you have to give me this bullshit fills that I have to trade my Ferrari trade into Ford Fiesta.” and literally thrown away his phone over his sophisticated desk. I decided to move on and after stepping few steps I saw one man suddenly fallen down on floor. I imagined whether he had giddiness or something, but he was sitting still and idle.

Slowly (not really), the noise level was increasing, so much that I thought where the hell damn I stuck here. Soon I saw upside, there were massive screens which became totally red and on same screen I found small green dots. The noise level was drastically went up, so high that I thought of being gone away from this place. So I did.

I walked towards the huge gate which was showing “Exit” on its head. I literally ran from there and exited from that caterwauling place. I was still running hard (not just fast) and suddenly, I stopped and got me scared- literally like applying emergency brakes to the bullet train. There was a huge 'Bear-The Bhaloo' who was giving hard punches on the face of massive 'Bull-The Bail' and that bull too was struggling hard to fight with him by putting down his neck across ground. For few seconds I remained steady at that place and realized that it was just the statue.

“Husshhhh”- the sound of relaxation delivered from my mouth. I bypassed that statue and went on towards the main road, reached there, crossed it and looked back. There was a huge building with semi-circular structure and square base. On top of square base there was a digital screen across the walls and some message was continuously running on it with some names, numbers and arrows, all in full red.

I looked a bit down, there was a pole which was carrying the nameplate, probably the locality of the place. After reading the nameplate, Within the  second I realized where I was, what I was watching, the angry faces, the screens with reddish in colour and some green spots, the herd, the statues and all because ‘Dalal Street’ the plate was mentioning. The noise was still reaching my ears and irritating me. “Tongggg Tongggg Tongggg” again a massive sound irritated me. I close my ears with my palms by applying pressure whatever I could at the time. I turned myself back. My sight fell on a large clock on building which ticked into 03:30 in the afternoon, the most popular time among traders. It was closing bell probably. 

I observed that the noise level was falling very drastically and soon later I felt the so called ‘Sannatta- the deep silence'. The people one by one was leaving the premises and was moving (probably) toward their home, some of them might be heading towards Bar. I was there only at the other side of the (Dalal) street observing the people leaving the building. I raised my head towards the screen which was reflecting ‘Nifty 50  10,316.45  -282.80  v -2.67% ’ in maroon reddish color. I was stunned by such a deep fall in index, though it was just the matter of few percentage but investors are deeply affected and that’s why some were fallen on ground and some were pressing their heads hard like they were having a strong headache.

Few minutes later, there was a deep silence and suddenly the earth started shaking. I did not get what was happening. Shaking intensity went on just like I thought it was to be a massive earthquake. Soon later I was watching the parts of the building were falling on ground. I closed my eyes in fear. I was still -standing still- at the moment. Looking at me, one lady ran towards where I was standing, reached me and put her hand on my shoulder, pressed it hard, and started shaking heavily while yelling at me “ Geeeeeet uppppppp, Geeeeeeeet uppppppp,  Geeeeeeeet uppppppp you son of Kumbhakarna, Get Up”

After all the shakings, I was feeling like earthquake has gone away, everything around me was steady and still. Everywhere I was feeling the 'Sannatta - the deep silence' and finally my eyes opens and saw my mother sideways of my bed who woke me up from my nap- the Dream of Sale.

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