In 2015, in a drug rehabilitation center in Mumbai, India,
30 drug addicts are queuing up to be questioned by officials on their vocational skills in order to provide them with relevant jobs to return to society.
A middle-aged man named Rahul started to fidget at the end of the bench…
When it was his turn, the official asked him: "What skills do you have?"
After thinking about it, I have lived till now,
It seems that what I am best at is shooting a revolver, but this certainly cannot be registered as a professional skill…
"You don't know anything?" The official was a little impatient.
After a moment of silence, he suddenly raised his head and answered:
"I can run very well! I can run very fast, for a long time…"
The official asked doubtfully: "Will you be the president? Do you have any experience?"
After hesitating for a moment, he lowered his head and looked at the floor:
“Yes! Many….
I was running while being chased by the police!
Running while chasing my target!
Running during a shootout with a gang rival!
The farthest distance was when the police opened fire on me and they chased me for two kilometers at a stretch…"
The people present were speechless for a long time after listening to this description.
Afterwards, a female official said slowly:
"I thought… you could run a marathon!"
Not long after, this middle-aged man actually participated in the Mumbai Marathon. In his first competition, he ran 10 kilometers in an astonishing 55 minutes (a master level among amateurs).
After that, he began to set new long-distance running records one after another.
The Indian media was shocked, not only because this player came out of nowhere and achieved impressive results after he was over 40 years old.
Moreover, because this person has an extraordinary past,
He was a professional gangster.
From gangster to marathon runner,
It is a difficult road of atonement…
In the 1970s, I was born in the suburbs of Mumbai to a working-class family.
When I was young, I was quiet and shy. I was considered a good child in the eyes of adults.
He himself has no special dreams. He is as simple and simple as many children from ordinary families.
Study hard, make progress every day, get into a good university, find a satisfactory job, and let your family live a good life…
However, this dream came to nothing after attending college.
At that time, I met my first girlfriend in college – a shy girl with a soft voice.
He is deeply in love with this girl and plans to marry her after graduation.
However, the girl's father disagreed. He said that his daughter could not marry someone who had not graduated from college, and everything must be considered after he completed his undergraduate studies…
While working hard for the degree certificate,
However, his girlfriend's father secretly secretly married her to a local wealthy man despite his daughter's objections.
He almost collapsed when he heard the news:
“This was the first time in my life that I felt angry. After despair, hesitation and helplessness, my heart began to ignite the raging anger of resistance…
That day, I made a decision. From now on, I would never allow anyone to make me feel so helpless.
From now on, I must make my own decisions about my life! "
After suffering a blow, he decided to drop out of school at the age of 21.
In his opinion, the biggest reason why he lost his girlfriend was that he had no money. What he urgently needs now is not a degree, but money.
He began to think of every possible way to find the fastest way to make money…
By chance, he met a local gangster in Mumbai in the apartment building he rented.
This man brought him to the boss. Seeing that he was in good physical condition, the boss immediately accepted him and asked him to join the Mumbai gang's most profitable industry – extortion.
At the beginning, it was just a strike, that is, helping the boss to withdraw money from a fixed place, and then take it to a safe place. There was no need to fight or kill…
However, he was very smart, and he quickly became comfortable in the gang, and even began to plan to climb up step by step.
His involvement in the underworld aroused the alarm of his family. In order to keep him away from street violence and do a serious job, his father enrolled him in a computer class and asked him to take computer courses…
This was around 2000, and computers were still a new thing;
As one of the few people in the industry, I should be able to find a good job after graduation…
However, what I didn’t expect was that after completing the computer course, I immediately applied what I learned.
Instead of working in a computer company, he learned to hack into databases, search for data on real estate developers in Mumbai, and hand over the obtained information to his boss to "open up new business" in a targeted manner…
After making great achievements in this way, the boss promoted him again and let him start getting involved in the core business-making extortion calls…
He seems to be particularly talented in this area, and he quickly made the business go smoothly:
"Unlike other gangsters, I quickly developed a sixth sense, which allowed me to identify who was a suitable blackmail target, who could cough up a lot of money, who couldn't, and who could agree to something over the phone. Believe it or not, which ones require the use of violence to solve…"
In the second year, his business was booming, and he was able to help the boss draw millions of rupees in commission…
Gradually, I fell in love with this job. I could make a lot of money and I was extremely good at it. Why not do it?
However, as the business expanded, the boss told him:
"We need more thugs. Those brothers before are unreliable. They just want to get money without contributing…"
The boss paused for a moment and told the reporter that if he was willing to stand up and charge into battle, he could make more money. In the future, whether he was caught by the police or targeted by competitors, the boss would do everything possible to cover him…
Agreeing, he found a friend with whom he had good friendships and no serious career, and began to expand his extortion business.
Soon, he was making money that he had never dreamed of making in college.
"During that time, I was very generous, eating in the best restaurants and drinking the best whiskey. Who made money come easily…"
However, life at that time was extremely dangerous,
In order to successfully extort money, he needs to be brave and aggressive. When the opponent is outnumbered, he has to be bold enough to shoot and bluff them…
That is to say, during this period,
He began to develop the ability to run.
He encountered the police on a narrow road and had to escape quickly after the fight. He was often chased for several streets…
Sometimes, when the blackmail reaches the territory of other gangs, a fight is inevitable.
Unbeatable, another life-threatening escape…
While successfully building a reputation in Mumbai, he himself was also blacklisted by the police.
At that time, he was already quite notorious in Mumbai. Although he had never actually killed anyone, he was still regarded by many as "the most dangerous gangster" because he often participated in violence.
The days of earning money by fighting and killing will eventually come to an end.
On February 27, 2007, the good days finally came to an end.
On this day, as soon as he walked out of the bar smelling of alcohol, he tied up the policeman who was armed with live ammunition.
He was then thrown into a jail, and what awaited him was the prosecution filing as many as 11 separate criminal cases against him.
He was indicted as a leader of organized crime. The indictments included carrying and concealing weapons on multiple occasions, participating in violent fights, and intentionally wounding others…
He was eventually sentenced to 4 years in prison and became a prisoner…
Behind the bars, watching the relatives who came to visit me,
For the first time, he felt pain and remorse. A young man who could have had a bright future had degenerated into a gangster because of a broken love, and step by step he had been imprisoned…
The loss of freedom behind bars led to a deep self-reflection.
In the past, the "ordinary life" that he hated so much has now become out of reach…
If he had a chance to do it again, he just wanted to live a free life as an ordinary person, not seeking wealth, but only peace and joy.
Just like that, I spent 4 years in jail.
After being released from prison, he faced two choices:
One is to continue to go back to the gang and live a life of wealth and glory, and maybe one day he will be found dead on the streets…
The other is to completely change his mind and become a law-abiding ordinary person…
Firmly chose the latter.
However, after being in the gang for nearly 10 years, his foundation has long been written with black marks on it. It is not easy to live a normal life. …
Shortly after being released from prison, he concealed his past criminal background and found a job.
However, the price he paid for his past experiences was heavy. One day in 2011, when he was at work, the police appeared in his office with a team of people and asked him to help investigate a recent extortion case…
All this was seen by people in the company, and he soon lost his job.
Because of his past experiences, not only can he not find a good job, but he is also often the subject of criminal suspicion:
"Every time there is a blackmail case, I am the first suspect. They (the police) always ask me the same questions – who did I shoot? Where was the gun fired? How many rounds were fired? ?
I want to turn this page of my past over, but it keeps lingering around me, lingering…"
Without a job, he was looked down upon by others because of his past gangster status, and he began to sink again. He soaked himself in alcohol and drugs again…
After a few years like this, my life is about to go to waste.
In 2013, the person who saved him from despair finally appeared,
A prosecutor named Jetha heard about the deeds and decided to help him with all his strength.
In her view, he encountered great difficulties on the road back to society, but he still firmly held his bottom line and never returned to the criminal path.
The top priority is to make him feel that he is valuable and that he is still a useful person…
She first found her family, and then further gained her trust and persuaded her to detoxify.
After a period of detoxification treatment, he felt that his body had recovered a lot, so he took the initiative to apply to participate in the volunteer project of the detoxification center.
Cleaning toilets, taking out trash, cleaning up vomit, no matter how dirty or tiring these tasks are, he works hard to complete them.
At this time, I only have one belief, try my best to become a useful and good person…
After some time, the drug rehabilitation center began to prepare the addicts for returning to society.
Very nervous, he didn't know what he could do,
When it was his turn to be questioned by the officials of the drug rehabilitation center, he bravely said what he had been holding in his heart for a long time while hesitating.
The scene at the beginning of this article appeared…
When answering an official from a drug rehabilitation center who asked me what skills I had, I suddenly remembered that I have great endurance and can run well, even though this ability was trained when I was engaged in violent crimes…
He was nearly 40 years old at the time, but he hoped to use his ability to give back to society and wash away the sins he had committed.
Without any more hesitation, I devoted myself to marathon training without hesitation.
He began to run desperately, as if he was fighting against fate, and as if he was trying to catch up on the lost time…
After running 10 kilometers in 55 minutes in 2016, he was out of control. He was determined to take the marathon path and never looked back.
He cheered up and first found a new job through a friend;
After that, he began to train while working, and gradually, he fell in love with running:
"Running to conquer a certain distance is much happier than running to escape for one's life…"
I will run 20 kilometers every day during training.
"When I run, I feel extremely happy, and all the anger rising in my heart disappears. Running makes me feel more and more peaceful…"
The endurance and running ability he developed while working in the underworld gave him a good foundation. Coupled with his hard training, his marathon results are getting better and better.
After 2016, he participated in several marathons and achieved amazing results on several occasions in the Tour of Mumbai Marathon.
He also tried a long-distance marathon of 150 kilometers across the city from Mumbai to Pune, which took two full days…
The record he is most proud of is running 63 kilometers in 6 hours.
And he is not satisfied with this result. He hopes that he will have the opportunity to break this record soon…
The marathon runner's life has opened a new chapter,
He finally had a goal for the rest of his life. The delinquent boy who turned to crime in a fit of anger finally gradually moved away.
Now 42 years old, he has finally walked out of a new life.
His dreams are huge:
"The current world record for a 100-kilometer marathon is 6 hours. I look forward to breaking this record one day!"
Looking at the extremely peaceful sunset in the west, the city he once violently attacked,
Now he is using the steps of atonement to regain the beauty of his past little by little…
ref:
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Hu Daqi can’t run away: He wants to trick me into joining society again
One: The good guys have gone through ninety-nine and eighty-one hardships, and the bad guys have put down their butcher’s knives and become Buddhas immediately.
xXThere are so many beauties in the countryXx: Another big brother trapped in love
I worked hard: This kind of person has perseverance and perseverance. He just took a wrong path at the beginning. If he had the right concept at the time, his success today would be much more.
: Breaking the marathon world record is impossible in this life. But the story is still burning.
G0NZ0: I am also very explosive. When I was a child, I was chased and beaten by girls.
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