Most fantasies have a lasting impact on most of us. Beautiful fairies, charming princes, flowers, fortresses-all things of human desire. Here is a story that I have written, a simple commentary on MAN, his hypocrisy, and his drifting away from the cherished valued of civilisation-LOVE AND HUMANITY!
"If we could love"
My days in Nandanpur were passing like a tortoise running a marathon!When something disinterests you, time appears to run really slow! The sulky feeling of boredom had sucked every drop of the nectar of my energy.I was walking with my cousin Aditya and suddenly we stumbled upon a stone. The milieu had changed, far more beautiful than the one by default. It did not seem as if It was Earth.For a moment, I was taken aback.
I realised that we had stumbled upon a beautiful garden. We were walking in the garden, adoring its beauty, jumping around.Our thoughts were so full with the panoramic beauty, that we did not realise that some fairies had appeared and started swaying around around us. But as soon as we did, we were completely swept away by their mesmerising moves. Those fairies were just like the ones who appeared in my dreams.Sure, dreams come true!
Further, one of the fairies, the prettiest one and who seemed to be the leader or formally the queen asked a bizarre question:
"Why do you want to go back to your original world?"
It seemed that in their world, happiness on the face indicated perturbation.Well who wants to go back ma'am! We are quite comfortable here! I realised that before I could say anything, my cousin Aditya, sans any mind, replied, " I want to be the richest man in the world. I have to teach lessons to the boys who hit me, by hitting them back. I want to be with my family,with my pug! I really want to go back to Earth!"
Hey 'we' would have been better than the selfish, obsessed 'I' brother!-I exclaimed within my mind, agitated over my cousin's self-obsession. Aditya was better than me in the academic core, but beyond textbooks, he had no real knowledge. Thinking if the words that were running in my mind were too good to be true and simultaneously worrying about our return, I finally decided to vent out my thoughts.
"Because we humans endure humanity, compassion towards each other, love and honesty. We have all disregards for hatred and dishonesty and we erase any such hard feelings, colouring our hearts with the softer versions of emotions-love, respect and happiness", I said, fumbling because of nervousness and also because I wasn't thoroughly convinced, probably not convinced at all.
The queen fairy chuckled, and in the wink of an eye, we were on the banks of the Son Lake of Nandanpur.
I hadn't even completely realised what had happened, and the queen fairy swirled, swayed and flied away, just infront of me and gave in my hand a pink gem on which was engraved, LOVE!
PALLAVI JAIN
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