Life Giving Disease Affected Village

Life Giving Disease Affected Village(Vikash Khandelwal) **To read more such stories visit --www.vikashwebb.blogspot.com**


It was raining heavily and I dashed to a deserted village with odd people. I rushed to get a shelter and passed many houses, very anonymous looking, and at the gate of each of these houses there were women that wore a white sari and all of them I see and felt had skin diseases, mostly on tiered faces which gave them an ugly look. I rushed through this oddness to a animal shed. It had many animals. I got there and put out my wet clothes, i.e., only my shirt. Seeing rabbits and frogs I was amazed, they moved slowly, that manner of walking gave an impression to me that they wanted me to catch them. Fulfilling their desire was my greatest happiness, as ever. I picked one of them. He done his work, i.e., was toilet (mutra visarjan) over me. I had no worry for it. It was raining and I put water on it, my skin had an burning effect. I put my shirt on it. Soon after my whole body was filled up of such infection as that which seemed to have happened to the villagers.

I was thinking there is no harm in a rabbit dropping, as I had experienced many times, but this time was an unusual experience. I felt it as ominous sign. In the morning I had the same dream when I slept which I am experiencing now.

Today when I woke up my friend gave me a surprise to take me to Rajdhanipur. But it was my great unluck that I was invited. When I get upon the bus its Tire automatically punctured. Then on the journey it once again got punctured. This time I moved to the forest area to do toilet. When I came back the bus had left.

Now the same thing, the toilet from rabbit made me to get an infectious disease.

I was wondering and thought the same disease had happened to the village women. I was very much terrified. But I have to consult the women for my cure. I went there but found nobody. I knocked on the door. But no one came out. Lastly I saw an old man telling me "who are you?" I told him the whole story. He told me that all in this village suffer from this disease and that this is a blessing of god to have this disease. This will let you to live 250 years without being effected from any other disease. I was surprised, first of all, thinking it to be some sort of misguidance. But he told me that you have to live here to save yourself from any other disease other than this and if I leave the village I will get the real life again, that is I would get rid of the skin disease but i will be a normal human being facing all disease others face.

He told me that If I leave the village I should not tell anybody about this kind of system, Otherwise the village would lose the way to prevent other diseases, as God had given the gift only for the village.

I somewhat believed on the story told by the old man, by the confidence he had depicted it.

But as for me, I was to be a wonder of the world. I like to be in a social network and to me it is not a gift but a curse to live so long with the disease the villages were 'gifted'. So I told him I would go out of the village. I moved out and got cured of the skin disease.

Going a distance of 5km, I got a bus to Mumbai. On the way my disbelief in God was vanished. I told God I was sorry for disbelieving him.

The whole way to Mumbai I was thinking about the incident.