The story starts: She was an innocent prisoner, a victim of circumstances, a victim of this cruel, canny world and was serving her sentence in a prison awaiting execution. He was in the same prison, about to be freed and he met her one day. He saw her innocence, he deeply thought of what she termed as a crime. 'No', he said, 'you ought to be free'. He decided to set her free. He fought for her and the doors of the prison were opened for her but she refused to be freed... She denied to come out. But the man was determined to set her free, he did not give up, he had to take her out, he broke all the walls of the prison, he was fatally wounded by the time the last wall was broken. She was sitting at the same place unmoved and she screamed at him, "Whyyyyyyyy? Why stranger.......... why you? Why..... when because of whom I am here, he never cared to bring down the walls.... why you?" For the last time his dying eyes met hers and he said .................. T...
A very heavy one at that..haina !
ReplyDeleteHappy Diwali..hope your life lights just like the diya's light our homes :)
Take Care
Thanks, and a very Happy Diwali to you too!!!
ReplyDeleteTHE VICTORY OVER SELF.
ReplyDeleteWHEN A MAN REACHES AND LIVES SELFLESSNESS, HE WINS OVER SELF.
ANND WHERE DOES HE LEARN SELFLESSNESS?
LOVE TEACHES HIM.
LOVE FOR MAN. LOVE FOR MANKIND.
@Gazal- I don't believe in selflessness, I rather believe in 'the virtue of selfishness'
ReplyDeleteI second the belief of "virtue of selfishness".
ReplyDeleteI question everyday, if the victory is worth at the price of losing what makes you, You.
@Priyanka- I don't have the answer to that now, I'm looking for that answer myself..
ReplyDeleteSadly, that's so true.
ReplyDeleteI feel I breath-in fire and breath-out oxygen for the culprits to survive. Can I fulfill the wish to breath oxygen and not burn myself few thousand times a day ………. I prefer not to complete the statement and live the post you wrote.
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