Biography of a Sewing Needle

This is the biography of a needle named Mr. Intellect Needle. He belongs to the mild steel race with his orgins in the plains of Japan. His birth itself was a case of trial by fire. He came through all the heat of the situations and emerged into the world. He was born into a huge family of 1,00,000 needles. He spent the early part of his life in the company of some 99 others in a community which lived in a sealed a polythene bag. Their community started their living at the Stylo Tailors, Cheepurupalli- a calm and quite village in the eastern coast of India. During the early days of his life there was nothing much to do except talking to others in the closely "bound" community.

Soon the inevitable happened, members of his community started being pulled out of their cosy environs to the vast unprotected realms outside. Strange stories were told in the community about the fate of the members that left the community. It was certain that it could well be that they would never ever see them again. The departure usually was very emotional, with all the other community members praying for a good time in the ruthless world where there was always the threat of the wicked viruses , the "Rusts". It was said that anyone who failed to keep oneself ready and perfectly toned would fall prey to this virus, which would eventually lead to death.

Intellect was always worried and always felt conscious of the threat. The community head Mr. FarSight Needle always monitored the members and made them aware about the epidemic that could result even if one of the members get infected. He also had great rapport and business relations with the doctors of Sandpapers. These doctors usually rescued the community when an epidemic broke out.

Soon it was the turn of Intellect to explore the outside world. It was the 7th of July, on a very rainy day that he was rudely pulled out of his community. It was particularly hard because it was season of the outbreak of killer Rust. There were many of the Mr. Greedy Rust, Mrs Envy Rust and many others who were always on the prowl for their preys.

During the first few minutes of his "outside worldly" existence, a most wonderful thing happened to him. He met the lady of his life... Ms Hardwork Thread. She was elegant and was in a very attractive red. He fell in love with her. Ms. Hardwork also was very happy and soon they got married. They were tied together in wedlock for life. Mr. Intellect liked Hardwork immensely. He always kept her close to himself and narrated his stories to her. Together Mr & Mrs Intellect travelled various worlds, some were very tough like the tough Jeans areas and some were smooth like the Silk areas. During their lifetime they had many children some beautiful murals,embroideries and many more.

But the journey had to end, slowly but surely Ms. Hardwork was aging and getting exhausted. Her flowing length of existence was fast reducing. But Intellect loved her to the greatest extent, he even tried to get her more length to increase her span but it was not to be. On one fine day Ms. Hardwork died. It was one of the greatest shocks for Intellect, he cried and cried, cursed the God of Needles. His lady love had left him forever.

After the death of Ms. Hardwork, he was many times forced to marry many younger threads but he never married again. He rejected all the threads right away. Many humans tried their hand in forcing a marriage, they tried many tricks like enticing him through gorgeous wet threads. But Mr. Intellect was a man of honor. Because of his disobedience he was thrown out where he eventually caught the rust and died.. but the memories of Mr and Mrs Intellect will always remain with us.

God bless!

Peace!