Diamond Dream

As usual, the watch man took position in front of the jewellery for the night’s duty.  The city was slowly slipping into silence. The watch man kept observing the whole area looking out for any shop lifters who could turn up at any time. Nothing happened and the night began dissolving into another new dawn. As the morning began to dawn in, the watch man decided to relax; he sat on the chair near the main gate and almost immediately fell asleep. To his astonishment  he  dreamt  that  two  thieves  were  trying  to  enter the jewellery through  the backside. He looked at them in awe and checked his watch to see what time it was. It was half past twelve in the night and the calendar showed the date as 16th December 2002. Almost immediately, he woke up from his slumber, but he could not forget that it will be the next night at 12.30 AM that the thieves appeared to be breaking into the jewellery compound. The  watchman  decided  to  verify  his dream and so very carefully hid himself  near  the  wall  at the backside, right in time, when he had dreamt the thieves  would  be  breaking in. Sharp at 12.30 AM just as he had dreamt, two thieves jumped over the wall. The watchman immediately pounced over them and the startled thieves jumped right back over the wall and fled. The following day, all the staff at the jewellery heard what had happened early in the morning. The manager called in the watchman and honoured him with due rewards and special appreciations, as the owner of the jewellery had directed. The manager said, “Thank you for your great service; the Boss has appreciated it very much. But I’m sorry, he also has ordered your dismissal. He says that he paid watchmen not for sleeping and dreaming.” Many times, similar unfortunate twists happen in our life, whenever we skid off from the purpose we are supposed to serve. It is very important for any, to continue in the very awareness of ‘why he/she is here on earth’ at any moment of time.