Those golden jazzy
Jhumkaa , the flow of maroon chiffon saree, a backless cut-sleeve golden
blouse, hair falling down to touch the waist and the crackers bursting up in
the dark sky.
I could just catch a side
view of the lady when she pulled her hair behind her left ear that was falling
on her face. I was yet to see her. She was clapping her hand in joy with a kid
on her side.
I said,” Excuse me”.
She turned around and my story ended then and there. That was ME! I was terrified.
I was taken aback. I could not speak to her any further but got into the
picture. That was ME!
I was attending my
friend’s wedding with two of my very close friends who were married to each
other. Sheena and Nilay.
The function was not
yet over. I leaned down to answer the question of a little boy who was 5-6
years of age wearing a sherwani in the combination of beige and gold. He asked
me about the multi colored sky which was the creation of different colors being
spread by the bursting crackers.
He said,” Aunty, tell
me the reason behind the different colors in the sky. How does it happen?” I said,
“It’s the happiness in form of different color across the dark sky”.
The kid never asked
the second question to it. He started clapping and enjoying the moment. He was just
a kid to understand the reply which I gave him.
And thankfully he didn’t
ask otherwise I would have landed in problem explaining a kid the philosophies
of life which I have in my mind through my experiences.
I heard my name. My
friend Sheena dressed up in a golden lehenga with her husband next to her in
dark green sherwani called out my name once again.
Sheena looked at me, she was calm and said,”
Shilpy chal. Let us leave”.
I started driving back
my car in the darkness of the night which was being illuminated by the bursting
crackers up in the dark sky.
All of a sudden I heard
the note that someone started narrating behind me. It said,” She is not
somebody who is a winner but a failure. She has compromised with life. She is
calm. She is flowing with the flow of the life which is yet to be composed. She
loves being with kids around and has a fake smile. She has turned out to be an isolated being. She is just okay with her
smile”.
