Thursday, February 06, 2020

5 years later



February 6, 2015
Being days away from death
It was quite a show: he came out on a wheelchair, and had a mask on his face--it was a scene straight out of a movie.  It was heartbreaking for me; a man giving in to death, slowly; a man who I had once seen being very strong.  I went to get the car. Sabir too had parked the car in that lane, but after getting his parked car Sabir went the wrong way. I wanted to go the way the arrows pointed out for me to go, further down and then make a U turn.  When Sabir’s and my car crossed Sabir did not look happy that I was going the other way, but I kept driving; made a U turn into the other lane that had the one way traffic going up.  By the time I reached the passengers Sabir had not showed up; I wondered if someone had caught him going the wrong way and reprimanded him.  Will he realize after this that he faces all these problems because of his minimal education?  Chacha got in the car; we had pillows for him, he had asked for them.  He lay down with pillows under his head.  I asked him if I should put seat belt on him in case I brake hard and he rolls out.  He asked me not to brake hard.  Going home when Abba talked about buying dollars, Chacha suddenly got very excited.  All his life he had done that, he liked being around money and having something to do with it; that was a real pleasure for him: making money, accumulating wealth, and spending as little as possible. I wondered if he should keep doing this till the very end.  Why not die doing what you really want to do?  We reached Chacha’s house and sat there for some time before heading back home.

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