Question

give essay on the autobiography of an old bench

Answer 1

Is a bench in the central park of a colony in New Delhi? Though made of lifeless material, steel, I have seen the world from very close.

In the year 1994 I was manufactured with many other of my colleagues. When we were all ready for use, we were kept in a store waiting to be disposed off as arid when the demand for us would come.

Those days at the store I distinctly remember how, we all waited neatly stacked in rows for our fates to be sealed. The sound of footsteps outside the store would send our hearts beating pit a pat, wondering which one of us and how many of us would be sold, auctioned or presented.

Those days were of good company as, we were all together, and understood each other. I remember how, at times we even touched each other's hearts and felt deeply for each other.

Almost every day some people would come and few benches would be withdrawn from the store. Since all of us looked alike, were of the same specified size, same colour and same material there was no scope for a choice by any of the customers.

We were handed over in the sequence of our places in the store, the front lines being given up before, while the rest continued their wait for the next customer. I remember that, I was placed in a row of twenty benches placed somewhere in the middle of the store room so, seeing the method of disposal of the benches, I clearly understood that my turn would come after a long time