Life Works Out. (A Puppet Show - Part II)

Three simple words – and yet most of the times it seems impossible that these words will figure in our lives one day.

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She came and spoke to me in my sleep. Did I hear it right? I don’t think so. It’s a dream, a silly thought – that I wish was somehow true.

I woke up with a smile – a big one. For a change I could actually feel my muscles stretching. I looked into the mirror. So this is what genuine happiness felt like?

I rubbed my eyes hard so that I was sure of what I saw.

There were no more strings attached to my body. The pain was gone and I felt light – almost feather like.

Was it true then?

I had to be sure and there was only one way to do so.

She was standing at the door, gazing out into the open sky – lost in her world. Somehow I mustered all the courage that I had in myself to ask her and just as I opened my mouth, she looked me in the eye and said -

‘I trust you. Don’t let me down.’

I noticed the sun coming out bright and shining and a smile on her face - I think!

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In its own funny way – Life does work out.

For all those still waiting for the sun to shine. It will.

- Dedicated to Shruti Swaminathan.