MONOLOGUE BY AN OLD SOUL

I keep saying this all the time. Things happen for a reason, everything falls in place when it has to. No misery no hardship will go away from your life till it teaches you a lesson. In times of distress, always hum your best lullaby. My life has taught me nothing more than what yours must have, but when I think of it, I feel like I have lived for a very long time. Not here, not in this age, but many ages. I have gathered knowledge that I am yet to remember. I don’t know if I will be able to remember it in this life. But, I know I will when I have to, when I am supposed to, when it’s required to be remembered.

Life is a waste if you don’t fall in love. Love inspires you like no other emotion. It makes you achieve things no common man would even dream of achieving. Things you won’t do for yourself, you won’t shirk from doing it for someone you love. You can dance to the tunes of that emotion. Your heartbeat turns into a rhythm you can’t ignore. It’s an addiction that beats every other addiction. You feel like painting, dancing, writing, singing and much more than that. If you haven’t experienced love you still don’t know what it is to live with a soul.

Soulmate is a concept very few understand. Every soul has a soulmate. You meet your soulmate only when you reach the end of your journey and it’s time for you to return to the soul realm. That’s when our twin soul comes to us to take us back home. The people you meet till then are just allies that came to help you complete your journey. Bear with them, understand what lessons they have to teach you. We all are just fragments of the same element. Whether we realize it or not, we all are connected. Some connections are stronger than others because like atoms with valence electrons, we all have something to offer to each other. The strength of the bond depends on how many valence electrons are participating in making the bond.

Time is a concept, the fact that it doesn’t wait for anyone is a myth. Instead, time is an entity that remains in space and we keep moving forward from one plane to another. We can move back and forth and live the moments again, alter them, but we are yet to remember “How”. We are a living inside a time machine and mind can travel faster than light. So wait, ponder and absorb as much as you can from your current situation. Progress of tomorrow is remembering knowledge which was forgotten yesterday. 

BROKEN TOYS

She walked, shattered and unconscious of where she was going. She kept thinking about what could have gone wrong, why nothing ever goes as planned. She was not at fault, yet the guilt card was played on her. For some strange reason, she always attracted persecution. Ruminating, she kept walking, looking for someone to understand what she was thinking. She didn’t have the energy and the patience to explain and justify what she was going through.

She was distracted by the door that stood right in front of her. She didn’t realize she entered the service quarters. She was far too disturbed by her thoughts to bother about finding her route back home. She sat there and got lost in her thoughts once again.

After what felt like eternity, she saw someone coming her way through the gate. “Hi! Are you looking for somebody?” The strange girl looked into her eyes and tried to read her thoughts. “No. I was a little tired so I came to sit here for some time.” “But I thought you had been sitting here since morning.” “Has it been that long? I think I should leave then.” “It’s okay. You can come in with me. Eat something and then leave.” “Do you stay here? I thought it had been locked down for ages.” “This property is owned by my Father. I just come here to collect letters. Come on in.”

They both chatted for some more. She poured her heart out to the stranger, but not once did her pain go down. “You know you need to relax and stop thinking about everything so much.” They both got up and started taking a stroll around that place. It was huge towards the backside of the house. It looked like a whole different world with green lushes and open blue sky. “I have never seen a place like this here. Is this the only way to come here?” “Yeah! This place is only for the service quarters. Whenever I am bored I come here and lie down on the grass. Let me show you something interesting.”

She took her to a broken well kind of thing. “OMG! It’s so deep. I can’t even say if there is water inside this.” “This well has been there from a long time. My grandfather used to get me here and bathe. But now it doesn’t hold water. Hey! Do you want to go inside? There is a stair that leads right till the bottom of the well.” “Are you mad? Who plays that kind of a game?” “There is no harm. In earlier days they used to throw coins in the wells and wish for something. Who knows we might find some antique stuff to add to our collection. The service quarters have been there since the age of Britishers. And who knows, this well might be even older than that.” “I don’t like the sound of it, but okay. Let’s take a look. But I will go deeper down only as long as I can see the light above.”

The lower down she went, the darker it got. She kept going down till the last ray of light when finally her feet touched the ground. “With that light, I can’t see anything here. I need a torch light.” She switched on her mobile flash light. The well had anything but antique. It was full of dead meat that probably lost its way when it was alive. “Hey! I am not getting a good feeling about this thing. Let’s go back.” She came back out of the well and flashed the torch light for her friend. There was no sign of her. “Bitch! She must have chickened out in the beginning.”

She started walking back to where she was going. The best thing about this entire exercise was, she forgot about the thoughts that kept haunting her. The pain somehow reduced. It was as if she couldn’t feel her heart running any more. As peaceful as it was to walk under the street light, she didn’t notice she didn’t have a shadow.