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IN THE DARK

Hurricane

By Tanu KulshresthaPublished 5 years ago 2 min read

When my eyes open, I feel in the dark I am still in the water floating on by back.

I am just feeling tired even to open my eyes, feeling thirsty. A big wave knocks me down again. I want to scream, but I feel no strength. Several thoughts coming in my mind like will anyone come to save me and before that I thought what happen with my colleges and my friends, are they alive. We were almost 250 people on the ship when hurricane hit. I don’t know from how long I am here in water in this sea. It is too cloudy to judge what time is it. It’s too dark. I am feeling so weak to swim. I don’t think I for more time I will live alive. I am surrounded with so many thoughts. Before boarding on this ship, I got the best news of my life that I am going to be a father. For this I was waiting from 8 years. And now I m here in the middle of the sea and maybe I could never see my baby. Oh god please help me. I love my wife so much and I don’t know weather she knows about this situation or not. I wish I could see them one last time.

This is the time when you realize how important your every breath is. I want to relive every moment of my life. I want to say I love you to my wife. I want to hug my parents and I want cry on my mother’s lap. I want to say sorry for every mistake I did to all of them. Every thought is passing through my mind in same time.

On the other hand

Raily: Please let me go the site mom.

MOM : No you are not in the position. We are going there.

Raily : no mom I need to go.

Mom : Ok come.

They lock the door and sit in the car. It was too windy.

They reached there and went to the authorities

Several parents and family members were there crying.

Media people was there everyone even the authorities were not able to answer any queries.

Raily asking them when everyone knows about this hurricane from a week then why this happens. It was all over the news from so many days that hurricane is approaching then why you not called all the people back from the ship. Why the captain of the ship ran away? And where is my husband jack. It’s been more then 24hrs now.

There were 250 people were missing.

They were saying we are sending the search team.

There in the sea I am feeling dizzy. No strength. I closed my eyes. After some time, I feel darkness is going and I m feeling the light. I don’t have any strength to open my eyes now. Soon I hear voice of few people but I can not tell what they were calling. Soon few hand hold me and put they pull me up on the boat. Then I remember only voices.

When I open my eyes I saw my family in front of me.

happiness

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