When your World, is just not end of the world!!

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.At that time, even if that wish or those people turn back, who meant everything to you once, seem to be immaterial.

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…