| 'Time' Series: Book One |
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The workings of her brain were a mystery to her own pneuma.
That's what Hinduja Rao always thought.
But, quite similar to her thoughts about her own self, was someone else around her.
Her newly wedded husband, the...
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Word Count : 4900
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01 | An Act Of Promise Or The Art Of Pretense?
| November, 2022 |
The art of pretense was scary.
You would keep on pretending, to prove that everything was normal. Only to realize that one fine day your pretense would lapse right into your true self. It would break through you. Vandalize your mask. Force your true soma to bask in the sun. Force it to get some fresh air, while chaining your false skin for a show in front of those who thought it was true.
And you?
What would you do at that time?
Will you avoid the sun and air to cower back in fear? Shackling yourself into the corner of a room, in the dark?
Or, will you embrace it the way it was handed over to you? In the light, under a thousand pair of eyes?
The later would demand your courage.
The former? Your patience.
The ethical 'you' would say that the former choice was correct. The 'human' you would say that the later made more sense.
And he, was someone, who found it much easier to pretend.
To pretend that everything was normal. That he was normal. That his marriage with his soon-to-be wife was normal.
