Thursday, December 1, 2016

Diary - Day 43

Smoke from his cigarette rises up against a hanging bulb's backdrop and breeds quite a sight to watch. The government's intention is to hammer it into smokers' heads that such a sight is at the cost of their lives. The scene cuts and camera pans to another location now - his home where he's in the drawing room, staring at the TV with his daughter snuggling into the fatherly warmth of his left arm and rib cage. His right hand is busy holding a cigarette in an awkward manner.

As the TV volume goes down because of his daughter's amplified cough, realization strikes him. He walks towards the balcony, puts off his cigarette, determined it's for good, comes back into the drawing room, embraces his daughter as a father who quit smoking.

He wakes up the next morning. On his way to work, he stops at a shop and lights a cigarette with shaky hands & a remorseful heart. 

1 comment:

  1. Not sure about shaky hands and remorseful heart. But he surely does make a pit stop at a shop :)

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