[rajnish manga]

“See son, it has been true in my life, the same thing has happened in my life. Ours was happy family; me, my wife and two sons. One day our maid died while giving birth to her fourth child and the child was girl so her father refused to raise her all by himself and told he will donate or send it to orphanage, since we didn’t have any daughter we adopted her, they all grew up and settled in their lives, then the problem was whom of those would allow us to stay with them, none of my sons came forward but my daughter, even though she had an independent life as a teacher she let us to live with her, now the day has come when I have to stay at both of my sons’ homes 15 days each in a month like an alien” he sighs saying this.

“What about your daughter sir? Won’t she let you live with her anymore?” I ask out of curiosity.

Before he could tell anything, someone comes running to our bench, holds the old man’s hand and says “come on papa let’s go, it’s getting late”.

The old man gets up and leaves waving me a bye, I wave him back but the man who sent him away stays back and asks me “has my father told you anything about his life?”

Before I could say anything he himself continues “because he is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, it started as he wasn’t able to remember recent activities like: what he ate at the morning? Or whom he met yesterday and now it is in chronic stage and he doesn’t remember anything of his past, so he makes up his own stories and believes them as true and tells people the same, so whatever you have heard just ignore it. Have a good day” said the man and left.

I am unable to believe what I have just heard, everything that old man told was a lie! How could there be a disease which makes you forget your past, your loved ones! It is a strange incident that has happened to me this morning.
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