Stress in office

Stress at home
By Kuldip Dhiman

THIS is his thirty-third cigarette and the sixteenth cup of coffee. As he wipes the sweat off his face with a tissue, he swallows another pill. The one that he took an hour ago seems to have had no effect. He again reads the warning letter that he got this morning from his head office. His days in this organisation are numbered. Home is another hell with a wife who does not seem to love him anymore. She is probably seeing someone, and he can’t do anything about it. He begins to sweat profusely, his mouth gets dry, his body begins to quiver, and as darkness begins to engulf him he manages to dial a number, ‘Is that Dr. Trehan’s Clinic?’

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