This too shall pass

"Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out"

Irony. The word is indeed a small one, but has the ability to upturn one entire life. Remember "The Diamond Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. The entire life of the protagonist is spent in repenting for borrowing the diamond necklace. Her idea of looking beautiful on one awesome night proves to be a nightmare. She and her husband had to pay through her nose for the lady's dream of living a lavish life. The story is indeed a sad one, and gives me goosebumps even now. I make sure that I don't borrow things just to prove myself for a couple of hours. 

Another beautiful story was in our curriculum for the 10th boards. The details are hazy. And the Google search didn't yield results. The story is on Manorama, a typical teenager who wants to fall in love and marry someone who is romantic as portrayed by movies. She used to get love letters by her school crush. However, their teenage love doesn't end up in marriage. Manorama is married. She is not so happy with her husband. Her husband is not romantic at all. The old love letter reminisces and she in a rage once told her husband that he is not romantic at all. And what he reveals now, is the best thing about this story. He says that all the letter that her school-boyfriend used to give her were written by HIM. And the story ends. Romanticism is not measured by the poems but the unshared feelings. 

O'henry, the king of stories with a twist, has written magnificent ironies. The most loved are "Twenty years after" and "The last leaf". Twenty years after is on the friendship of two young guys who decide to meet after twenty years on a particular place. The surprise that awaits them forms the irony of the story. "The last leaf" however is on a sadder note. O'henry tries to prove that the most unexpected person helps you in the time of need. The author has beautifully portrayed the characters and the background. 

I am fond of ironies right from my childhood. And somehow these have inspired me to write one on my own. Mentioning my story in this article would be amateurish thing to do. But it meets the purpose of my article. "Terminal Love" by me deals with the love that goes into a relationship to make it strong. 

Ironies give me a high. It motivates me to linger in a bad situation. As it might happen that an irony is just waiting to take all my blues away. Ironies can be summed up in one phrase, "this too shall pass". 

The post with no title

Yet another year ends. 

I just read my last year's post made on December 31, 2009. 

The post reflected my happiness. I had vowed to be happy and cheerful this year. 

This year was quite a puzzle. It was an unopened gift for her or I think, she had expected it to be a gift but it turned out a nightmare. She would have liked to erase this year from her life, if it was possible. Right from January 1, she was not happy with her personal and professional life. In the bargain to get happiness, she even lost her strength and strong will. 

"Girl, I thought you were strong. You can emerge out of a pool of sadness without affecting even a pebble around you". But I think, if something doesn't happen according to your will for an umpteen number of times, you start loosing confidence. They say, when you make peace with yourself, you make peace with God. Lately, she lost confidence on heaven above, and to an extent this is because she was lost in herself. She lost her identity in toto. A bubbly girl turns into a cry baby or delicate darling. 

She is an independent girl who never waits for others. But the weakness is gripping her and she is not able to break the shackles. Was her decision to take life head on, wrong? Will she get what she wants out of her life? Or she will loose herself once again. I seriously wish she is OK, plain OK, so that there are no more upheavals in her life. God bless (if there exists one)