Humayra Ferdous

The soldiers of fortune

Once in heaven, a man who did many misdeeds in his living period was screaming continuously. He was saying,” I should be named as a local hero in my village as I have saved many peoples’ valuable lives.”

When his other fellows, with an amazed view, since they knew his past records, asked him the reason of his unusual demand, he described to them simply like that, ”The villagers put the danger signboard over the well in which I dropped into just after my tragic death, however more than 50 were died in the same manner before me.”

“So, what do you think? Am I not be the soldier of fortune for them?” he threw the question to all and took a deep breathe. The rest couldn’t utter anything, remained ridiculously silent.

Just like us. We can not cheer for that disappointed man as well as we can not urge the villagers to reward him either.

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