In search of a soul (A short Story)

Short story inspired by song "Dil Dhoond Ta hai" (In search of a soul)

 Naresh is a middle aged man in general helpful in nature who derived most of his pleasure from helping people.He would go out of his way to help even unknown people. One day while searching for "Delhi" images he see's a photograph of not so young lady in jeans walking in a garden. He clicks on it to find that it takes to a site which has users and their uploaded Videos. Naresh find the video interesting and watches a few more. Then on a regular basis starts following the user's videos with interest. The videos are about the user visiting religious places, gardens etc. Naresh also finds a link for the users profile on a dating site. He finds that the user wants to get married. Naresh is touched by the content on the profile of the user on the video and dating site but does not understand what to do. He comes across a saying "You are never to old to dream a new dream" and decides to help this person get married. Naresh musters courage to join the video site and dating site and starts his search for the person. First he needs to make contact and convince the person of his sincerity. He takes that as one of his missions in life. Naresh Starts putting in comments on the user's video site. Tries to send a one to one message on the video site to no avail. He is able to send messages to the user on the dating site. He get a reply from the user "Are you married? I am in Ambar Vihar". Naresh is happy to get a reply, Ambar Vihar is a residential colony very near his place . He replies honestly "Yes I am married but want to help you" there is answer. Naresh keeps writing regularly without any answer. Naresh  first goes on a discovery of the real name. The video site mentions Sonu in a few places. "Sonu" could be "Sonali", "Sonal" "Sona" "Soni Kumari" Oh that is just the first name and combine it with the last name the permutations and combination could be endless. Naresh starts searching in social networking sites for names starting with these names. One day browsing the dating site Naresh comes across the name of the person as Sonal Sharma. Oh he wonders is this her real name?. Anyway assuming that it is starts the search, searching across Social Networking again for that name. In one of his visits to the video site he discovers a video which is autobiographical. He decides to read the video and put down in a text file the details. The autobiographical video confirms the name as Sonal Sharma. There are name of father and brother also mentioned. Studying the video carefully Naresh notes that Sonal has gone through difficult times in her times. Sonal repeated a class in school but was very good in sports. Sonal's mother died when she was in college. Going through the videos frame by frame Naresh is able to find the registration numbers of the vehicles used by Sonal. He makes is a point to communicate this on the dating site. Naresh developes his profile on the video site as Sonu's fan and is dedicated to her. Naresh however continues to send messages on the dating site hoping one day will get a response. The religious leader of Naresh's community is to visit the town. He feels Sonal should benefit. Using the username on the video site he sends a mail to username@mailsite.com where mailsite.com are different a mail providers. Most of these mails are undelivered. But some do get delivered. There is no response. naresh makes it a point to send regular messages on the dating site, for a message on how he sought blessings for Sonal he get a response "You are a good soul, I need prayers". To this immediately Naresh responds but does not get any reply. On studying one of the videos carefully about Sonal's house he get an idea of the location of the house but promises himself that he will never use that information to go to her house or search for it in Ambar Vihar where Sonal stayed. On searching using the video name he comes across a matrimonial given by her. She mentions the only reason she did not amrry is because of family responsibilities. Also how she took care of here grand mother and father when they were sick. Sonal describes herself a religious and one who practices yoga and other sports regularly. Mentions a book authored by her and shown to great people. Naresh continues his search inspite of no response at all. Naresh finds another profile on a matrimonial site. He is tempted to join the matrimonial site makes an attempt and then retrains himself as its not ethical on his part to join a matrimonial site and lie while entering his details there.More details emerge Sonal has a Bachelors Degree has a height of 5 3inch, age 39 years. occupation is described as social worker. The video site mentioned Sonal as a teacher. Naresh starts searching using these details. He comes across a School for mentally challenged children with coordinator's name as Sonal Sharma. Here there is social worker cum teacher. There is an e-mail address. he writes but get no response even sends an inspirational greeting. The greeting is read but no response.Naresh starts searching more matrimonial sites. Traces Sonal profiles where more details are mentioned - school, college, organization, income. occupation is given as fitness professional and details say she is a freelancer and takes her personality development classes. Naresh thinks this a big achievement and follows this profile. Photographs are updated on this almost daily basis. naresh captures the pictures and the captions. There are hints to sonal's video profile and for a few days the cell number broken into two parts is mentioned as a caption on two pictures. Great a cell number is there now! Naresh starts sending greetings as SMSes on festival occassions on the cell number hoping to get a message Who are you? But no luck. Naresh also decides to promote this profile publicly by recommending on a social networking site. Naresh suddenly finds this profile has been Is it a repeated things. Naresh had in the past tried to make people happy by doing certain things and ends up annoying and displeasing them. Feels guilty is he partially responsible for the deletion of the profile. Hope Sonal is okay. Is it because of him. Sonal's profile is found on another matrimonial site.No additional information however. Sudenly even that is not accessible to general public. You need to be a registered user to see the profile. Naresh's ethics prevent him from joining the matrimonial site but he knows the profile is there. Sonu release another video in which she shows her PC screen the three website she frequents - Video site, Matrimonial site (which is not accessible to general public) and the official website of her spritual guru. The spiritual guru has profiles on several social networking sites so Naresh decides to search for the guru and trace friends/followers, may be Sonal will be there among them....... In one of his visits to the video site he finds there is a person who posted a comment saying he is a cancer surgeon from Scandinavia and left an e-mail address. Naresh writes to the e-mail if by anychance Sonu contacted him seeing his impressive profile. he gets a reply saying I"I do not know you". Naresh replies giving some details about himself. Hoping to get a response. There too does not get any response. Naresh starts sending mails/greetings to an e-mail address hoping to be that of Sonu. Hoping against hope that there will be a reply one day.