June eleventh, two thousand and seven.. Manish was his name.. He lived with his wife in Bangalore, India.. Used to work in a company, a multinational company.. He was twenty five years old then.. things weren't that good.. He was just able to earn a normal living.. Yet they were happy..
Two years passed.. With a lot of hardwork and patience, he came to a higher post.. He bought a big house, a new car, he had money.. Lots of money.. He was a great success in life.. He used to have conferences and meetings in countries like France, USA, Canada.. He didn't have any kids yet..
Twentieth November, two thousand and nine.. He was boarding a plane to Vegas.. Everything was just fine.. then the pilot warned the passengers that there is a heavy storm ahead affecting the plane to fly rough.. It was usual on such planes, Manish didn't seem to have been bothered by it until some malfunctioning started causing the plane to crash!
The next morning, he woke up, found himself stranded on an uninhabited island.. He got up, dusted himself, entered the island to find food.. The trees were tall, straight and its fruits were very high.. he then decided to look out for some land.. after an hour he completed a round of the island finding no land.. He didn't knew what to do.. He went out near the sea.. found that the cargo from the plane had also reached the island..
The plane was nowhere to be found.. All the crew members seemed to have been dead.. There were bodies floating near the shore.. The island haunted him.. The island had a very tall hill.. Then he took out some important stuff from the cargo and the air cabin crew.. He buried all the men and women he found at the back of the island..
He equipped himself with a torch, rope, Pen and a book.. Luckily he found a book of weather, a flare gun, and a book of winds.. He used to record things until the pen got over..
Night grew.. making the island a dark place.. He now had to make fire to save himself from the cold as well as from the intense darkness.. he found some timber and put it at a place.. he had done half of the work but he didn't knew how to light it up.. He first started out with rubbing stones.. Nothing happened.. Then he came out with wood and started making fire with it.. Spending half of the night trying to light a fire, he made it with a lot of effort.. He danced like a child after just lighting a FIRE! Then he sat down.. wept like a infant.. then slept..
The next day, he woke up.. he was all alone, not knowing what to do.. He was starving and decided to try at the fruits again.. He tried to climb the tree at first.. Failed Many a time.. Got frustrated and threw a stone which fortunately got hit to a coconut and it fell down but.. it opened into pieces.. The man was amazed looking at this.. He threw some stones again and then many fell which he tried to catch but all broke.. then he caught one.. and was very happy.. but now.. the problem was.. how will he open it? He should cut it and drink the water.. He hit that coconut to a rock, tried to hit it with stones but all his ideas went in vain.. he then saw a sharp edge of a rock and tried to cut it with it.. At last he was able to drink the water from the coconut! He decided to explore the place before it was dark.. and found a lake in the middle of the island .. and now he didn't have to worry about water..
Five years later.. On the island.. He found himself a friend.. who wasn't real but just a figment of his imagination.. He called him Karthik.. He had long beard now, wore ragged and shabby clothes.. and he cut the shoes from the front because his shoes were torn so he had kept a many pairs of shoes of some attendant of the flight who died but they weren't of his size... now he almost relied on fish and other aquatic animals.. He used to talk with his imaginary friend Karthik as he was bored on that island.. He read all the books.. and not even a single boat or a ship was found.. he thought he was in a place where no ships passed by.. he saw some aeroplanes though but none had seen him!
Ten years later.. Now he was almost fed up with that island.. the most frightening place he had never gone was that tall hill.. He decided to climb that up and see if there was any land! When he did.. nothing was to be found.. He still had hope and he made a boat and waited to leave at the right time.. he knew how the winds used to move throughout the year, knew when the tides where high.. and modified the boat with whatever he found useful..
When the time came he moved along with some supplies.. as he moved far and far he turned around.. looked at the island he had been since ten years and cried a lot.. He thanked the island.. even asked Karthik to do the same though he was his imagination.. and left! After a few days.. he ran out of supplies.. he didn't knew where he was or where he had to go.. he experienced a lot of storms at some nights which broke his boat little by little.. but the boat remained and the next morning a huge ship saw him.. he was just beside the ship.. hungry, dirty, looked like a barbarian, resting on the boat he had made.. the ship's Captain ordered to bring him up.. Then he was given food, shelter.. he had a bath and shaved himself..
When he reached India, the media was alerted.. and the people where alerted by the media.. When he reached home, he met his Parents but his wife was nowhere to be seen.. He asked his father about her.. he remained silent.. then he turned to his mother and she too.. didn't reply.. with a lot of interrogation, his dad gave him an address.. he went there and found his wife and hugged her.. but there came a child running from inside yelling "MOM" to his wife.. He now understood why his parents didn't utter a word when he asked about his wife.. He left..
After a week.. His friend threw out a party and there.. he saw Lighters which would bring fire on an instant.. he saw a knife.. food.. oven.. stove.. and reminisced... Thought about his past 10 years and moved on..