Life and love

Shweta she was as her name was “white” and “pure”.She had soft features and was charming.She was sitting by the window in her white salwar kameez,and the wind was gently ruffling her jet black and silky hair.She seemed like a princess lost in thoughts.Ashok stood there mesmerized by her beauty.Watching her doing nothing.



Suddenly Kamla came and Shweta looked around and was startled to see Ashok standing at the end of the room.


Kamla: Didi,aaj ka kaam khatam,main jaa ri hu.


Shweta: Ok.


And then she fixed her hypnotizing gaze towards Ashok.The poor creature couldn’t escape this trauma of being pierced by those pair of beautiful eyes.He just stood there numb.Finally Shweta broke the awkward silence lingering in air.


Shweta: So Ashok,what makes you visit me at this hour?Any new updates?


Ashok:Shweta I have a good news for you.Dr Alex visited the center today and he told that a new technology is up for testing.They need a few volunteers and I thought of you.That is what has brought me here today.


Shweta: Her face gleamed.Wow Ashok that’s a great news.Definitely I am in.Thank you Ashok for considering me.


That’s what enchanted Ashok more than her beauty,her enthusiasm,hope and optimism towards life.


He still remembers the day Shweta was admitted in the hospital.He was in night shift that day and in charge of her life that gruesome night.It was raining heavily that day and plenty of accidents were reported.One of a small headline on the page of “News Today” page number 7 was :


“Car crash on Delhi-Rohtak road,2 injured 3 dead on spot”


That night the rain washed away the memories to be for Shweta with her family members.Her Mom,Dad and Sister died on spot.Herself and her brother were rescued and their heartbeats survived the catastrophe.But she never cursed GOD,fate or destiny.She was one strong woman to be after all.She survived only for her left leg to be amputated and her family swept away from her.


She was left with Nitin her elder brother who helped her heal her wounds and determination to walk again,work again.


After the accident Harsh,her love also abandoned her as she couldn’t run anymore,she couldn’t dance anymore,she couldn’t walk with him hand in hand over the grass barefoot anymore.


Harsh leaving her crippled her in real than the amputation.But Nitin revived the family business and gave strength to her.She started walking again with the help of “Jaipur foot”.She beared enormous pain but she was not the one to accept defeat from life and destiny like this and sit and brood,be in tears always,that’s not her.That’s not how her parents bought her up.


Suddenly Shweta’s voice brought him back to present from past.


Shweta: Ashok,when shall I visit the hospital for tests and trial?


Ashok: This Thursday Shweta.Dr Alex will ask you few questions and examine you too.I have had a glimpse of this new technology.This new foot is much more flexible and pains less.You can walk better and you can even give a shot to dancing if you want


Shweta:That would be great Ashok.I am really excited to try this one out.


Ashok came near her and kissed her forehead.Sure dear,it will do wonders for us.I am sure.My princess I love you for not giving up.


Then they entwined their hands in each other and thought of the day when they married each other few months back.They looked into each other’s eyes and smiled. Shweta found true love in Ashok and her life took one more nice turn because she didn’t give up. Ashok feels lucky to have her in his life.


P.S.:Life’s as you make it.No matter whatever be the difficulties you ought to be determined and not give up or break down.Good times are sure around the corner.As they say “GOD helps only those who help themselves.”

The forbidden mango

It was summer season.The schools closed,the roads vacant and the hot gust of wind blowing the sand off the dusty burning roads.Hardly a soul can be found outside.Everybody shyed away in their homes,children playing in tree houses and others went to cooler places on vacation.This was the locality of Shyamnagar. A small town with handful of people where almost everybody knew the other.


Mukul was doing his holiday homework.Loads of homework during summer vacation annoyed him and Rashmi too,his mother,because she had to spend ample time to make Mukul do it and organize it.After all he was only 8.Whole day she will be busy in household chores,Mukul would be running around the house and their garden.They had a big garden.The thing which fascinated Mukul most was the old Mango tree in their garden.He had been seeing it since he was a child.Rashmi told him,it was planted by his great great grandfather and has been there since then.It was the attraction of summer season.Not because of the mangoes but because of the swing on that.Every year his cousins will come to their home in summer,Raghu,Mugdha and Vineet.Mukul would proudly flaunt the great swing on the great mango tree and all will beg him to let them take a chance to have a swing .

But one thing which always intrigued Mukul was none of them were allowed to have the mangoes from the tree.Every year all the mangoes on the tree were collected by his grandfather and father and they disappeared the next day.No one was allowed to taste even a single mango,oh they looked delicious.Many a times,the kids tried to commit the sin of having the forbidden fruit but were always caught.Mukul was planning this year he will eat the mango,no matter what.

Next day his cousins will be coming,he wanted to boast and show he had done the impossible by eating the mango from the tree.Mukul planned to sneak at night and have one of the mangoes.That night when everybody slept Mukul creeped out to the garden.Stealthily he picked up one of the mangoes from the lowest branch of the tree,which was already heavy with the ripened fruits and was almost touching the ground.

He stared at it for a moment ,he did it,he looked around,no one was there to stop him.Everybody was snoring loudly in the summer night.He peeled it and had a bite.Suddenly everything around started revolving.He started feeling dizzy.And then everything went stark dark.

Mukul slowly opened his eyes.It was morning now.He hurriedly went inside the home.He rushed to his room,but wait, the house looked diferent.It was same but different,something peculiar was about it.


He went towards his room,the color on walls had changed from yellow to green.Weird,he thought.He opened the door and was shocked on what he saw next.In the mirror in front of him,he saw a big guy around 23 years standing,holding the door knob,same place where he was standing.It was him,it cannot be anybody else.He went closer to the mirror and touched his face and stared amazingly at the mirror.It was him,all grown up.What happened?Is it a dream,he pinched himself hard.But nothing changed.He was frightened and confused now.What happened to him?Where was he?Is he in future?Is he really dreaming???


Answer to all these questions are:Do not eat the forbidden fruit ever.Listen to GOD ,parents are like GOD so listen to them ha ha ha…

A Christmas Wish

Dear Santa,
What should I write to you…When you know everything.And if you know everything then why is there so much disappointment?So much pain and so much hurt everywhere around.Why aren’t there smilling and cheerful faces like you around?How can you smile when there is so much wrong going around everywhere.Are you smiling at the irony of it?Or at the foolishness of us humans?

Are the material gifts you give enough to make us forget about everything?For how long do you expect us to be just kids who are happy with toys.Who are unconcerned about the greater realities of life.I can’t do that anymore.I am aware of what’s happening around and I am not content with it.There is this rage,restlessness and bitterness concerning all what is there which should not be.Can you gift me a world where man is not the biggest enemy of another man.Where people understand each other and respect each other,can you take back your gifts of jealousy,hatred and selfishness from mankind?This Christmas can you just make me a small promise that you will make sure that everybody has two times meal to eat ?Just this much dear Santa.
Yours lovingly,
Priya

Being a twenty something ain't easy

Yes,life will change.All your friends ,the group will not be together.Forever would become a delusionary word,one of those hollow words which loses its significance when reality befalls.Life will never be the same.Love and relationships is what will seem the hottest topic to be discussed around the corner.Marriage would be the word you would dread off and want too.If all this is true you definitely are about to be 25 and more to follow.You would wish that the time should become still and you can live forever the life you have been living.Long STD phone calls and memoirs of the past is what you will be left with.You would frequently receive news from friends getting engaged or married and every conversation with any age group will end up in asking you the most dreaded question:So when are you getting married?As if it’s the latest fashion trend and you are left out and don’t have any idea about it.People will lecture you on being more responsible and you are left wondering haven’t living alone far from home since so many years proves that I am responsible and independent and can take good care of myself.If you can relate to all this then welcome to the elite group of adult and responsible people,yess you are no longer a kid though you still love to do kiddish things at many a times.

Love Ki MB1

Love …An incomprehensible feeling that takes over your mind,body and soul and changes you in a manner that you are never the same.Sab chemical locha hai bhai…Hormonal discrepancy,at a certain age your hormones go mad and decide to play a trick with your whole system inside and out to give you a glimpse of afterlife (heaven and hell here right on earth!!!).And slowly and steadily after a certain age they calm down come back to normal,jawani ka josh,sab thanda and you realise what life is and what truly love is.You may have felt that the other person is the only thing you would ever want in your whole life and if you are together then the whole world is yours.But time teaches you the lesson.that you can fall in love anywhere,anytime or should I say any number of times…  :D Whenever it does happens it messes up badly with your whole being.Raaton ki neend,din ka chaen,yess those sleepless nights !!! Your perspective towards everything and everyone.Everything just changes.But still you enjoy being devastated like this.Yess,that’s what love is chemical lafda.If you are suffering from any of these symptoms i.e. lost in thoughts of someone anywhere and anytime ,sleepless nights,a sudden liking towards romantic movies and songs,becoming compassionate even towards your enemies..Then certainly the chemical wiring of your body has had a short circuit somewhere and it needs repairing before you get a big shock.

Are you addicted to pain?

The drop of tear on her rosy cheek glistened like dew drop on a green leaf in a foggy morning

That’s how enchanting pain is.It allures you and then defies your rational instincts and makes you its slave.
Sometimes you are just happy being in pain,it’s like a drug that keeps you going…
So are you addicted?If yes,then wake up life is too short to be sad…Its passing by in every single second,laugh and make others laugh.Live in the present and don’t sit and brood under the shadows of past…Life’s calling…Are you listening???

A Tear and a Smile

A tear trickled down her cheeks.But this tear was special,not of sadness or pain but of the staggering joy overflowing her heart and soul.Life is mysterious and full of surprises.She had seen life from close quarters and knows how much true it really is.Just when she has given up all hopes a ray glistened and enlightened her world.She was all shattered,broken and was drifting on dark and unknown roads of her life and found herself so lost and just then she found a path in front of her,bright and filled with flowers leading to her dreams.It was as if GOD has finally decided to end her misery and the puzzle is solved.All the scattered pieces can now be related.

Each and every incident was a part of a game plan framed by none other than HE himself.As Shakespeare has said “Life’s a stage and we are meagre puppets”. After Kushal  her dearest husband met that horrific tragedy and left her alone at a young age of 24 after 3 months of marriage,she became lifeless.She often cursed GOD why she didn’t die along with him,why she survived the car accident,why why why???? She found life purposeless.She was a practical soul,always had a solution for every problem.But life itself became her problem.Kushal’s words were echoing in her soul…”I will never leave you,I will always be with you…Just close your eyes and think of me and I will be there “and so it was always.When he was alive and even when he went to heaven.

She used to spend days thinking of them…Whenever she used to close her eyes,she saw him,felt his breath,his smell,his voice….She used to sit at sofa,bed or floor like a statue for hours with no idea of time…Just lost in thoughts,their thoughts and dreams which they have knit in the past few months after their marriage.The best 3 months of her life.Kushal was not only her husband but her soulmate.As they often say “Made for each other”,it was so true for them.

Life came at hault.Until today…Kavya now had a reason to live and life wasn’t  a compulsion anymore.She felt like Kushal is with her again,he kept his promise.She still couldn’t forget that moment when she came to know of it.Now another life was crawling,shaping and dreaming within her.Yes,she was going to be a “Mother”.Her Kushal was with her,the fruit of her hopes,love,pain,sufferings will soon be ripened.True love never dies…Never….She came out of the hospital room with her reports and her life…A truck with a banner was passing by…It read…

"Life never ends,it just transforms”