Did I tell you guys I'll keep the posts short?? Now forget that I told that, I am being pathetic in keeping the word count for sometime. Today was quite a hectic day and on top of that i am sitting now with two red eyes and pathetic burning feeling in them. I was writing my post and thought i'll finish it in five sentences, close the laptop and just sleep... and here I am writing it for last half an hour, actually writing and rewriting and it became long!!
Do you really mind if it's little longish? Please let me know... if yes I'll push myself to keep a stronger check on the word count!!
Today is J and what better that Jealousy for the emotion. Now the obvious thoughts for jealousy were girl friend boy friend kind or sibling rivalry kind or something to do with sports... but then i thought of this and i stuck to it somehow!
OMG its already Day 10 and I have not missed posting a single day... Power to me!!!
Here you go.
The Promotion
Some said don’t do it, some said
think before you take the next step and some said listen to your heart.
For Aarti Malhotra it was always
using the mind before using her heart, but she had listened to her heart that
time.
She was the quintessential go
getter all her life. For this IIT IIM graduate climbing the corporate ladder
was not a very big deal. She had worked in difficult situations and managed
crisis with care. She had prioritized her work before everything – be it the
family functions, cousin’s marriages, festivals or anything else.
She had met Vivek Raizada in this
company and known him for some time. They had a great working relationship and
shared mutual feelings for each other. Aarti was not sure if she was completely
in love with him or not but when Vivek proposed her for marriage she had
promptly agreed… much against her family’s wishes.
For her age, position or wealth
didn’t matter that much as was the educational qualification. She knew Vivek
was highly qualified and he was a nice person, so what if he was younger to her
by two years. She had listened to her heart and not thought about pros and cons
while deciding to get married to him.
Life was good enough, Vivek was a
good husband and a good father to their new born baby and he cared for them.
When she joined back after her break it was fun to be in the same board room,
which Vivek was part of now after his recent promotion.
But all hell broke loose on the
day of the meeting with the chairman who was highly impressed with Aarti, her
work and her dedication towards the company. He knew she was the go getter that
the company needed to expand their international business. He named her the new
CEO of their Foreign Business division much to her surprise and her delight.
She felt her dream was turning true, she always had it in mind that she will be
the CEO some day, just didn’t know it will be so soon.
There were many happy faces in
the board room who congratulated Aarti on her new elevation. One face among
them didn’t show much of a delight, for Vivek was eyeing this position for some
time and had a good chat with the chairman over breakfast where he had sounded
quite optimistic. Vivek felt he was a better candidate for the international
business expansion with his foreign degree and felt he was much more deserving
than his wife.
For few months he tried to
console himself, but Aarti’s now beefed up paycheck was not helping him to
forget what he missed out on. How he wished she had stood down on the offer and
endorsed him for the position. His outlook towards his wife started changing
with this one announcement.
The little disagreements were
turning into regular clashes between the two and Aarti didn’t realize why he
had changed so much suddenly. She didn’t understand why he got upset before her
business trips.
She didn’t see what everyone else
could see, jealousy had crept in
between the couple and it was taking a turn towards worse. They had traveled
great distances work partners to life partners but now they felt as rivals
staying under one roof.
***
Aarti felt sad today while
signing on the decree of divorce, but she knew she had no other option. She wanted
a peaceful life for her daughter and she knew she will not be able to provide
her that in that house which had become a loud, noisy and quarrelsome one… an
environment which had only jealousy and hatred in the air.
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