The Map

"Hey, we lost the map", he told me.

I stopped dead in my tracks, I had not expected that. He seemed pretty scared too. This was an unexpected situation, we had to take a few things for granted right?

Then I realized and it dawned upon me that it really did not matter. So I told him, "hmm...I think that is ok".

"What? How is that ok? How will we find the treasure now?", he almost screamed.

I told him in a calm voice, "you want to find the treasure, right?"

"yes", he softly replied.

"Then go and search it, find it all by yourself. Isn't it possible that you will get something much more valuable? And what if the map was wrong?"
"And then, what is the point of searching for someone else's treasure?"

"If you want your treasure, then go find it yourself, make a map for yourself."

I turned towards him but he had already gone, I heard him whistling some tune as his steps merrily fell on his journey.

(c) Deapesh.

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