UNBREAKABLE STRINGS

Abhira finally mustered up the courage to talk to her as she wiped her tears and started to share a story from her childhood, "Pata hai Ruhi, ek baar na mumma court se lautne mein late ho gayi thi, I had a bad day at school that day, my 12th boards were coming up and also my law examination entrance exam and I had scored poorly in my school exams. I wanted to ace that year, I wanted to make my mumma proud. I got very discouraged, and I just wanted mumma, but I was alone and in the evening, the lights went out due to the bad weather. And I, I got so scared, I panicked even more because i was already stressing out due to my results and career, I was all alone, I had no one, the call wasn't connecting. I hid in the corner, crying and then fell asleep. An hour later, when mumma returned and I woke up, I got so angry at her and whined so much, blamed her that I was alone because she is always out and then I don't anyone else. I said that I could have my father, his family, my mother's family, my siblings, cousins but no, I don't have a family coz of her. She calmed me down, and called my friends to our house, and they actually came that late. My mood had instantly lifted up with them and I was back to being the happy going Abhira. Mumma then gave me a doll with which I used to play when I was a kid. I felt, I felt so nostalgic, Ruhi, as if I was again a small girl, in my mumma's hug, who just has to eat, play, complete my little homework, give goodnight kisses to mumma, sleep and repeat! I felt relived of all the stress"

"That's when mumma taught me an important lesson Ruhi, that family, affinity, love, solace, it's not in the people, it's in the feelings. And feelings, they are like river water, who sweep in the direction they find a way in, the way of love. I found my peace in my mother, and if she isn't there, then in my doll, my friend from the toddler age, my friends who shared the same stress and happiness as me." Ruhi would be lying if she said she wasn't hurt listening to Abhira's story of how she felt alone since childhood. She hated that she endured when she wasn't even at fault. Ruhi was surely moved by Akshara's move to console Abhira, somewhere she got the sense of nostalgia, she had seen her maasi do these things when it came to explaining kids with love and care.

"Ruhi, all I want to tell you, is that, you don't need to forcefully love your maasi back to get happy again. You need to love love again. You need to love the feeling of happiness again. And it can be found anywhere, in anyone, except anger and hatred. Aur main, main bas tumhe khush dekhna chahti hun, Ruhi, I don't want to impose myself on you, all this time, I have just wanted to tell you that I am there, always there, because I want to stay with you, for you because mumma or me, we have never ever wished harm for you. And you, you have to accept your past and move ahead with your heart permitting you to do it, and once you do, you'll see my love, Ruhi. It's not about what has happened, I know we can never fix it and I am sorry for it, but we can atleast look at what will happen na, Ruhi?? Apne dil ko khushi aur shaanti ka ek mauka dogi, Ruhi?"

Ruhi was amused at how Abhira was speaking the things her heart felt but her mind hadn't understood till date. She felt as if talking to a mirror.






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