How do you react when your most desired wish, or a
relationship in which you have invested a lot of time/expectations slips from
your hand? You have been living that life, everything around you is just
focused on that - One thing/Person.
You are shattered!! You stop believing in yourself and just
hate the world.
So was the story of a girl, whose marriage is called off by
the groom a day before marriage. She stumbles, cries and continues to call the
man, who ditched her. Empty empathy of people around, marriage decorations and
all celebrations haunt her all night and the last word she hears is she wanted
to go to Italy as her dream wish. She gets up sober in the morning & tells
her parents she wants to go on her honeymoon.
A typical innocent middle class girl, who had never dreamed
her life without this man, has not stepped out of her home all these years,
never traveled alone sets herself for a
foreign land.
A lot of guts are needed for many of us to step out of our
comfort zone, but at times that is the best you could/should do. Change your
environment. That is what she does with a brave heart, but the pain persists
when she see couples around.
Further sections of the story, I could relate it to the
first time, I stepped out of India for a job assignment in foreign land. The
way you are brought up, the cultural difference, language challenges exposes
you to an entire different environment which is beyond our general
expectations.
Wearing a Kurta on jeans, being unaware of the use of
cutlery, ordering wrong dishes which you can’t eat, not knowing exactly how to
cross the roads, always expecting a lady with child to have a husband, being amazed
when a girl next to you drinks like mad etc. These come through as cultural
shock and at times you just feel like going home.
On the rolls, you meet some people, you get chances to talk
through your heart and share your time the burden on your heart reduces. As you
hear stories of people around, you feel that your pain is very less as compared
to others. By managing alone, you gain confidence and meaning of your life,
your worth. Your co-habitats, your colleagues your friends become everything to
you. You develop new habits, upgrade your skills and start seeing the world
with confidence.
We often read and share quotes on face book and rather than
just words, we should try to implement those in our lives. More & more you
repeat to yourself, more & more you relate them to your life.
That is the strength which we learn as we get to see more
experiences and that makes us the person we are. But still there is no limit to
what we can become and how we become stronger, when we are perceived as the
weakest.
The story and its depiction is a great inspiration for you, when you
are going through pain. It tells you that what you sometimes consider as your world,
is not exactly the end of the world & life goes on…
