May’
2003,
East Side, Manhattan Borough, NY.
A week later Aryan friends had left to their places.
“Thank you Shalu,” Aryan said, “thank you for everything”.
“You don’t have to do this. You can still stay with me. I will be more than happy if you are here. I always had a feeling that I have a family” Shalini said.
“Shalu, we were your family and we will always be. In fact we are family, aren’t we Mama?” Aryan said looking at Rekha, “It is just that we both needed to stay away from this city, isolate ourselves from all sort of communications for a while. I see it as the only possible choice that could make us feel better before we resume on our living,” he said walking towards Shalini, “Shalu, you have got a great job. You have a remarkable life, and you must get a buzz outta it”, Aryan dabbed her shoulder and said, “mama, let us go,”
“Hold on Aryan,” Shalini pitched in, “if you both have considered me to be your family then I have the right to stay with you, which means I am gonna go with you”, she asserted, “I am not excited going to work for the company where there is no you. I will draft in my resignation today, and I am coming with you, no matter what.” She said in a firm tone.
Aryan had considered her choice, in fact she made it clear for the Hadars that they should accept her impeccable line of reasoning and they just did because Rekha and Aryan couldn’t possibly think over it for long before they complied with Shalini’s solicitation. They knew Shalini had got a good head on her shoulders and her strength of mind was unquestionable. The Hadars were regardful of the fact that Shalini’s decisions were never made in haste and were other reasons by which they agreed upon to take her along with them.
Shalini left all of her belongings and donated all of her assets to the orphanage she was raised at. She had made an understanding in the past that she would do the charity from fifty percent of her savings to the children’s education and food at the orphanage. She backed her words back then and had been doing it since the time she observed her job. Perseverance is her second name Aryan thought and said, “Mama, Gimme a few minutes,” He went into the room and grabbed couple of loose sheets after tearing them from the notepad on the desk. He penned down…
“I tried to explain things to you, but we spent very less time and there was no space. I choose to write comprehensively and let you know what I wanted to tell you until today. I have the feeling that you should know what I am going through lately, as I felt you are also a part of my life who completes me. I’venever imagined even in my wildest dreams that I would write to you to express my feelings of unhappiness.I am in chaos.I am not being consistent in my life. I am muddling, hon. I am living in the swoon of sorrow and solitude thinking of how to save the Hadars from ironic circumstances. Yes, my family is about to die.
If this is one part of a piece from the montage of my life, you are the part of my love life. I stood by my hunch that I would make some love to you for the rest of my life but I never imagined that there would be a time coming when I had to refrain from having those thoughts. Do you still think that I would give you a family where you can be happy? I don’t want you to get worried for me, and I don’t want you to feel unhappy just because of me.
I promised to give you a happy life, yes I still wanted to keep up the promise, but how? I see an unanswered question, and when I have questions unanswered I don’t have the liberty to make commitments. Even if I did and let us be together, that’s not meaningful at all. I need my family to be safe and also you. I am now entrusted with multiple assignments in life to take the charge over and I am in the middle of nowhere. I was in abyss figuring out a way to go about my life, because you were also an important factor to be considered in whatever decisions I make. I know you will never show any objection to my interests and you never will, but I still have to consider you in every way I intend to go. What should I do? Was on my mind for several days. You don’t deserve to be apprehended to any of the things that happen in my life and I nailed it down to put an end to my love life. At this stage, I have to make a choice and it is inevitable; I made a choice, and I should prepare you to leave me because I cannot leave you as I promised I will never leave you.
You may have no idea to what extent I am imploded for the way I hurt your feelings and for ruining the faith you lay in me. I degraded myself in your life. I am happy that I did it for a reason and for our future, I hope you understand. You were and are always, a great lover, a great woman in my life.
You were always there for me when I am in my hard times. You’ve pushed me through ups and downs in my life. You well know that you are the only women in my world and whom I loved to the deepest of my heart. I am not able to convince my heart that we are not together anymore. I don’t know why I had to reach an inevitable choice to make. Promise me that you will take care of yourselves.
For the true love of yours and from the unsophisticated beau of yours,
Lots of love with loads of hug,
Good Bye”
“Mama, let’s move” Aryan uttered while walking out from the room. They had started the ride in his hackney to a new city for a new beginning. Aryan and the family had not foreseen of their lives in the new city. The unexpected fortune that he encountered after his arrival in the new place had dramatically changed his life thereafter.
Power and Pelf 