What life is all about ?

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A celebrity, despite being quite young, had earned a lot of money and fame. But at a particular point of time in his life he began to feel that his success and vanity are enslaving him. He had everything—a highly sophisticated life—but he was still unhappy. When he was a teenager, he thought that earning huge amounts of money would earn him his freedom and happiness. But now, that had proved to be wrong. He lost his freedom as well as his happiness. The only consolation was that he did what he loved: playing football. That kept him going in life.

The things that he had to do to keep up his stardom on purpose to show off to people that he was a good and generous man made him feel like a complete stranger to himself. He was highly respected where ever he went; he knew that only his fame and money were the reasons behind the way everybody treated him. He knew life was not that easy—every ear he spoke to, every eye he saw had either sought some favour or materialistic expectations from him; the conditional love. He felt his life was becoming so artificial and was getting confined by vanity.

He desperately wanted to resolve this situation and figure out what the meaning and purpose of his existence is and what life is all about. So he decided to take a break, go on a vacation to Texas, throw off his stardom there for a day and just go out for a walk disguising himself. He wished to unravel out of his misery for a while, and hoped to gain a better perspective on his present and future. Garbed in an apt disguise, Dave asked his driver to drop him by the shore; there he befriends an old man who retired as a teacher and a person who gave up his passion to become a movie director, in order to lead a ‘safe life’ (with a decent job, sufficient salary, a wife and a child) in the society.

How they initiated a conversation and how the wisdom and experience of the retired old man and this young celebrity’s quest for wisdom, spin a beautiful narrative and form the crux of this novel.

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