SECOND CHANCE A Story of Time and Regret
This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, places, institutions, companies, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real persons — living or dead — real places, real institutions, or actual events is purely coincidental and entirely unintentional.
Synopsis
Arjun Sharma is twenty-three, earning five lakhs a year, and quietly suffocating inside a life built entirely from the things he never tried.
He has the intelligence — he always had it. But somewhere between school and college and the slow drift into adulthood, he traded possibility for comfort, effort for just enough, and ambition for the easier, safer path of doing nothing that could be judged. Now he sits in a cubicle under a flickering light, watching his father work a month away from home, his sister carry the family's hope on her shoulders, and his own potential grow cold and distant like something glimpsed through a closing door.
One ordinary Thursday night in March 2026, Arjun falls asleep with a single desperate wish — not for money, not for fame, but simply for another chance. A do-over. One more run at the life he let slip through his fingers.
He wakes up in December 2012.
Ten years old. 5th standard. Ink on his fingers, a too-small desk, and Mrs. Kulkarni writing on the blackboard.
And inside that small body, the complete knowledge, regret, and hard-won wisdom of a twenty-three-year-old man who wasted everything once and has absolutely no intention of doing it again.
Lucifer_CP · Urban
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