#Story: If I had the dollar-Benavat

It was very surprising to see Jenifer's name in the payroll of my company.

At first, when I saw her name, I was amazed and thought it was a
different Jenifer.
But, when I saw her in front of me, I froze for a moment.....

It all began twenty years ago.
Richard was a rich boy in our school and Jenifer was his girlfriend.
Richard came from a wealthy family and Jenifer came from a middle
class family. But, I was the poorest fellow in the school had a very
poor life with my mom and my brother.
My mother was a factory worker & my brother was at school too.
Sometimes, we didn't have anything to eat for the whole day. Many
days, I used to drink water to prevent the hunger. We were poor that
much. Richard helped my studies, though he was not so good at studies,
he even gave me money sometimes. He always lived a luxury life with
his other friends who had money. He went for clubbing with them.
Jenifer also joined them, according to them, they were enjoying their
life. But, I was totally away from those things as I concentrated my
mind only for education, It was because mainly I didn't have money to
waste.
Like most of the days, I was drinking water to get rid of the hunger,
when Jeniffer came towards me. I did not notice that she was looking
at me. She handed over me two sandwiches with a Coke. I felt so
embarrassed and I rejected. But, she touched my hand and told me :

"It's OK, you eat this"
Then, I took the sandwiches and ate. She sat down by my side and smiled.
She began to speak.

"I have seen you many times, you only drink water. I've never seen you
eating in the school cafeteria. I wanted to talk with you."

So, days passed way and she helped me most of the times after that
incident and of course Richard too.

One day, she came to me and cried a lot. She told me that she broke up
with Richard and he left her for another rich girl. I felt very sorry
about her. After that incident, she was with me most of the times. So
day by day, we became very close.

One fine evening, Jenifer came to my home for the first time to give a
notebook. I was not at home but my mother was. I noticed that my
mother was upset, but she did not tell me the reason.
After having 7-8 months of friendship, I felt a strong feeling about
her. Day by day, I ignored my studies too. Every night, I was dreaming
about her, I didn't do any school work. I wanted to be with her every
second. I began to love her. One night, I thought to tell her my
feelings about her.

NOn the very next morning, I met her as usual and l dared to confess
my feelings to her. But, she rejected me so sadly. I couldn't believe
that, I asked the reasons, but she never told me. Finally, I thought
to myself...

"she rejected me, because of my poverty. She must have stayed with me
closely,because she might wanted to forget her loneliness after
Richard left her".

That was how I justified it.
I thought to myself, how miserable to be poor.
I didn't have enough money to spend as I wanted, I could not eat, what
I want, I didn't have a proper house to live, now I could not love the
person I wanted.

I felt that poverty is the most miserable thing in this world. I felt
like commiting suicide. I didn't have good friends to tell about this.
I had to bear all this all alone. But, everything had a breaking
point.
I wanted to start a new life. Same times I got angry about Jennifer too.

In the next day of morning, when i was walking to the school, I saw a
blind person, who was trying to cross the road.

No one helped him, but there were a lot people around. Suddenly, I
realized that, this blind man was trying to live without his eyes
while I was trying to kill myself, due to my poverty.

I felt so ashamed of me. I wanted to be rich, that was the only way to
win this world and to get revenge from Jenifer too. Then, I went to
the blind man and, helped him to cross the road. Thereafter, I
dedicated my entire life to studies. I never talked to her again. She
went away from me.

After the final exam, I won a scholarship to a university. Then, I
lost all contacts of her. and her memories were fading in my mind.
In the university, I was one of the brightest students.


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