Atheist

Its the first week of April. Everyone is celebrating And making plans to see sakura. Meanwhile a boy just crossed his 20 , His name is “Katsu Kaisyu 勝 海 舟”. Katsu means “Victory” and Kaisyu means “boat of ocean”. He is an atheist and doesn’t have any knowlege regarding GODS. Now he is a free and responsible adult. This story revolves around some of the astonishing instances of his life.

7th April 2016, Its the Monkey year and this date is very special to Kaiysu family because there son is getting 20 today, Being the family’s only child he is being pampered alot. Its 7 in the morning, He woke up and saw a long wooden box wrapped in Washi(origamy paper) in front of him. Yes, You gussed it right! Its a present from his parents. He spare no time and opens the box and saw the dolls of “the 7 deities”. Its a very odd present for an Atheist but his parents want him to keep them for luck. He wasn’t familier with any of them but one doll gave him a strike, Its Daikokuten(Mahakala). Its not like he read about him, but just remembered him somehow. He bowed his head and thanked his family for the gift. He took a bath and get dressed, Meanwhile his mother prepared Sushi and Miso soup. He couldn’t resist himself from the aroma of food around and rushed towards Dining. While his mother was serving food his eye caught the date on the newspaper. Apparantly the date was supposed to be 7th Jan, 2017 according to him but its written 7th Jan 2016. but thinking it as a misprint he did not give it another thought. later he looked around and felt something is missing in the house and found out that the urn of his Grandpa’s Bones was missing. He curiously asked his mother,”where are Grandpa’s bones ?” for which she furiously replied,”Are you out of your mind, he is coming today to our home to meet you and you are talking bullshit”. He was too shocked hearing all this because according to him his grandpa died six months ago due to heart attak. Later he realised something is wrong with the time and asked his mother what year is it? of which she replied,”Its 2016 Son”. Now he is sure that somehow he travelled one year back of his memories.

Its 10 Am and The bell Rang! Katsu went to the door and got stunned after watching the person on the door. It was his Grandpa. For a moment he did not understand what to say, meanwhile his mother shouted from the back,”Don’t you greet your elders” and He embarrassingly laughed. Everyone went inside and moved towards 
Kotatsu(A Japanese table). Katsu’s mind was about to blast while he was remembering the events which happened in his past. He was very close to his Grandpa, He was a noble man whose profession was travelling and writing. He used to tell Katsu about his travelling stories. both of them were having fun.
 After the Grandpa’s arrival at home, Everyone was talking about past memories of How Katsu grew up. and then his Grandpa glanced over the dolls of “The Seven Deities” at the table. He smiled and told Katsu,”Remember the story I have told you about my India visit” while pointing at the Dolls. In a moment of second Katsu realised that how he knew about the DAIKOKUTEN(Mahakala). His Grandpa told him about the temples he visited in India and importance of Mahakala in their life. Katsu did not take interest in any of the stories of GOD told by him at that time. He just enjoyed the aura of his Grandpa. 
 
Chit-chatting went for more than 2 hours. All the time Katsu was feeling bad and guilty because he knew his Grandpa’s gonna die in next six months and he can’t do anything about it. Now something happened which never does before, Katsu rushed outside the house leaving the chat in between. He intended to go to Daikokuten’s temple as he is the only GOD he feels connected now and He somehow reached one of his temple. He bowed his head in front of the statue and started crying. He started realising that he was wrong all his life. “When things are not in your hand only GOD can help you”,He realised. He begged for forgiveness and asked GOD to save his Grandpa and left the temple. While coming back a truck on the same way on which Katsu is moving lost its control, coming straight towards Katsu andddddddd……

Knock! Knock! Dream’s over. Its 10 Am and the date is 7th Jan 2017. Katsu looked around and saw there was still no urn present in the house but guess who’s on the door.