Short Story

A geneticist is a biologist who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms.

Story starts......

Geneticist guy is looking through his microscope.

A hand rests on his shoulder, ‘You should head home and get some rest.’

‘Yes Colleague man I will, as soon as I’m finished.’ Geneticist guy yawns, rubs his tired eyes and watches Colleague man leave.

He continues to work for 10 minutes… then 30… Now 2 hours later geneticist gets up dusts himself and heads home, leaving his pristine white lab coat in his locker.

On his drive home he organises his thoughts. What needed to be done around the house. Laundry Lady will come tomorrow so had to make sure all the dirty clothes are in the laundry. Order some take-out for dinner and check whether Cleaning Lady did a proper job. He quickly runs through his mental check list. Then once more before he let his mind idle, thinking about work.

He orders his usual from Take-out guy. 40 minutes later, Take-out guy arrives and Geneticist guy starts eating. 

While eating his take-out he remembers a conversation he had with Colleague man, about how he needed a woman in his life instead of obsessing over his work, about how there is more to life than seeing a thousand times magnified through a lens. He remembers replying, ‘I take pride in my work. I keep everything organised and orderly. I can’t have a woman come in and start messing with things.’ This memory led to another.

Geneticist guy had recently started dating a girl from his second year genealogy course lectures. They went on a lot of dates during the semester, more often than not, Girlfriend was always late. Geneticist didn’t mind much at the start, they had a lot of fun together. Later on they started living together. Geneticist guy was surprised that Girlfriend had a very unorganised and untidy sort of lifestyle. Other differences eventually came up; which led to arguments; which then led to their break up. Girlfriend and Geneticist guy are still good friends but nothing more.

Geneticist guy finishes his take-out, straightens out a stack of magazines on the table and gets ready for bed.

True Geneticist guy does feel a little lonely thinking about the past, but he was very content with his life right now. His work was his life and Geneticist guy does his utmost in his research, researching ways to fix hereditary diseases, advancing the fields of genealogy and science.

Geneticist guy thinks contently, ’Yes I’m my making mark in the world, I’ll definitely be remembered. Remembered as a person who had great contributions to science.’ Yes as Geneticist guy laid there running through his mental check list thinking about his next day he was very content, wondering about all the new things he might discover.