Parody...

She turned 25 today. Her life represented slight shades of grey now. The black was supposed to be over, to be done with. She took in the fragrance around her, feeling a rush of an unexpected, yet overwhelming high. For the first time in three years, she felt happy. There were a lot of rare things that she felt that day too - Hopeful, satisfied, enthusiastic, positive. She couldn't remember the last time she felt this way.

Yet, there was a cringe. She flinched at the thought of the moment being fleeting. After all, she was 25 now. The good feeling won't last for long. In another month, someone else will take over her fate. Not someone who wishes badly for her; but her own well wishers, unknowingly trying to slaughter her ambitions - The sole factor which makes her who she is. The world calls her selfish, but she thinks of it as being self-sufficient. Like a country having and using its own resources, not willing to trade with others. Why would it, when it can have a life full of wants that it can fulfill on its own?

The mystique in her life, transient as it was, will be turned into a parody by her own loved ones. They will bring in a line of characters moving in and out, fluttering, to try and stay in her life. Not willing to accept, or rather even try to enhance their awareness about her wit. Disrespecting the fact that she has had experiences that were harder to survive, than a rock piercing one's chest. That she is way more grown up than they could ever be. No one can even begin to evaluate the pain she has taken on her shoulders. None of them will come close to being as strong as she was, while trying to cope with it.

What her loved ones want for her is opposed to her being. A choice needs to be made, just so that they can relieve their fears of their young one going against 'nature's law'. I wish they would accept that the law is human-made, and has plenty of scope for an incredible debate. I hope against all hope that they do not ask her to give it all up for a knot that she doesn't want to tie.