The Devil

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This is an incident which made me a sober man and I learned to control my anger.I really wanted to share this short incident which helped me in controlling the devil within me and I hope you all will never let that devil snatch control panel of your life from you. This is an incident of those days when I was a bit busy with an event called Filmi Keeda which was part of our tech-fest Technossium.I had another event in the same fest which was a branch event,so I was always on my toes as there was too much of work load . One of my seniors of Dramebaaz theatre club(our college theatre group which was organising camera keeda) told us(all the first year member's of theatre club) that we all have to make some videos for that event as that event was based on the directorial skills of an artist/director.He asked us to bring maximum number of videos from our respective hostels.He also told us that on the basis of our videos,eliminations will take place and the teams with the best videos will move on to the second round of the Filmi Keeda.Many of my friends Vikramaditya,Preeti,Kushal,Suresh,Sujeet were not even in a mood to help us oraganize this event.Abhishek,my friend and another active member of our theatre group was always there to organize this event although he was also busy with another event Spontanesia. Our event was perhaps the least promoted event and may be I was the only one who was promoting this event in the college and in the hostel.It was the last event whose drop down was put on the college building.No one from our batch was ready to make a video,it was obvious in some way as in every other event,eliminations were on the basis of a questionaire which was much simpler . Now event was just 4 days away and we had just one video which Abhi had made with Ajay(another popular but moody & brilliant actor) and that too unedited. Third year of our theatre club called for a meeting as they wanted to know about the progress of our event.They were really sweet to us but as soon as we told them that we have made just one video,they gave us an ultimatum that we have to make 4 or 5 videos amongst us and submit them.It was rude of them as no one was ready to act in our video.All the people(first year of theatre club) said that they'll make their video by tommorow as we had to submit our videos till next day's evening.We promised each other that if we don't get actors,we'll make a single video with all of us featuring in it and that would be a great video.With this,we all bid good bye to each other in hope of meeting next day in a much better situation. By 7:30 p.m.,I had got a message from the girls that they were not getting anyone to act and now they were in no mood to make a video for the event.I felt sad as I was the one who was given the responsibilities by the seniors to collect and edit all the videos but now I was the one who was left to make a video. The struggle had started and its 8:00p.m. and I'm roaming like a Banjara on the wings of our Patel Bhawan approaching people to participate in the Filmi Keeda but the only thing I got was disappointment.At last,I got a person(at 8:30p.m.) Govind bhai who was ready to make a video on ragging.I was too excited as I had done my job.But happiness is something which always mantains some distance from me.I got a call from Govind bhai at 9:00p.m. and he told me that he's having some problem in casting people for his video and he's no longer intersted as he can't take tantrums of anyone.I said-Bhai aap ne bhi saath chod diya,koi nahi aap ko bhi kabhi kaam padega.Whatever I said was in an angry state. Now,I thought of making a video with me in the lead role but the script also required two other actors who could play supporting roles.I approached Vikramaditya(a member of theatre group) who was busy with his Bot as he was going to participate in the Robot Fight,another centeral event in our tech fest.But the way in which Vikramaditya refused the role was a bit rude and I was infuriated with such a rash behaviour.Even my own roomie who was also there in the same room with Vikram refused to help me which further ignited the fire of anger within myself.I banged the door at them and then followed a series of gaali galoch(smaller one as my vocab is very poor as far as gaali's are considered). GAALI-GALOCH Vicky-Dhruv you bastard,rascal how you dare to bang my door? Dhruv-Vicky,you're such a thin black cat,I think you should go for a white wash to remove this black dirt off your body. In between there came a gaali from H.L.(Harilal) which was adressed to me . H.L.: You mother f****r,Dhruv. I didn't know why Hari abused me,I hadn't even approached him with a script.I was already angry at my roomie,Vicky and now it was Hari who had abused me without any reason. I gave a couple of gaali's to H.L. urf Hari and then I kicked his door really-really hard and in the process,I hurt my feet.I was crying because of pain and then came a pacifying comment from Sushil bhai.This pacifying comment was-Yaar mushkil ke waqt koi dost kaam nahi aata.But since there was so much pain in my feet,I ignored whatever he was saying.Hari came out and said yaar gaali was adressed to my friend Dhruv Goel to whom I was sending a birthday wish on whatsapp.Hari is a strange person,after all who sends such vulgar voice messages to a friend on his birthday. After some pacifying comments,all the people had left and I was there on the floor crying because of pain. The person who had kicked the door of Hari wasn't me,it was a devil who had come out of my body.That devil was full of anger and had an urge to release the anger which was released when my body was forced by the devil to kick Hari's door.As soon as I had kicked the door,the devil had gone and the injuries which had caused the pain was impacting me not the devil. This incident has taught me a lesson and that lesson is to control the devil within us.