"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".
