"Peace, contentment, and serenity. A mixture of matchless feelings one can experience while spending his/her leisure time around the beach. But not everybody can endure and explore the beguiling scenery of my love, only few dwellers on this mighty planet can do," said a geriatric woman wandering in patient’s apparel.
She continued, "From the day, or you may say the moment we leave the restful womb of our mother, we begin to seek tranquility. Some people discover it in completely serene environment while some people’s type of silence lies in the clattering noise of these wonderful waves. However, my source of silence lies in here, when I cannot hear the roars of worst reality of my life. My life has always been a frightening nightmare for me." After listening to one side of the story of the aged woman, the girl became more curious to know what happened next, and insisted the woman to support her shaggy ideas regarding the woman’s life.
The next moment when the day was about to complete its half, and the sun was about to complete its full duty - the sunset, wind started changing its dimensions while caressing their ears and silky long hair. The old woman seemed blushing and taking it as a feeling of love in the air. Moving further, she said, "I was in my teen like you, when I got a wicked spell on my body. The spell turned out to be acutely detrimental, which even broke the strongest bond that I had with my family. When my family came to know about that deteriorating disease, my mother fed me poison with the supper, and left me dying in the local hospital. Just to save the future of my other six sisters.She announced my death in the society we used to live in." The girl felt extremely remorseful for the woman, but for the old woman it was no longer painful.
This time, the tired and weak woman started narrating the other part herself. Now, they both took a bench and sat on it, meanwhile yellowish rays of the orb- the Sun,emerged,shining over the waves of the humongous sea, and birds started making their way to their sweet homes. “I come here daily from my old age orphanage, just to see this big creature going down to bow in front of Almighty Allah, the greatest of all, and this moment helps me strengthen my belief that every elevation has a declination, so will do my killer disease,” the old lady ended with a sigh of woe. The girl asked, if she could know the name of that disease, and the reason that urged her mother to put poison in her food and declared her alive daughter dead.
The elderly woman now started rubbing her feet in sand, making shapes with her pinkish white soft toes, and erasing them. The woman uttered, “The disease is blood cancer..., and my mother was so worried about me and my six sisters’ marriage. She thought that this unkind society would not accept the girls whose elder sister was having a malignant disease her body; therefore, she killed me ruthlessly that day. Now, my life is on the edge of the knife, and doctors have informed me that the time is near when I will have eternal peace, thankfully."
Suddenly, the woman pointed towards the reddish sky, and the mesmerizing sunset, went near the seashore and threw away the pictures with her family, and rested in eternal, never-ending, peace. Since that day, the girl started spending hours sitting on terrace or somewhere at heights, to see the sunset, while recalling those words of wisdom uttered by the elderly woman: “Every inclination has a declination.” Surprisingly, that silly girl was I who got separated from her parents for a few hours.
