Fairy Tales...

Remember all those fairy tales Mum used to read you to bed? Or those "Once upon a time..." that you read with eyes round like a saucer, that had those beautiful princesses meeting the most handsome and chivalrous princes you could ever fathom? How these stories ended with "... and they lived happily ever after!" and you slept contented under your blanket.

And then, how you grew up with time and learnt to unlearn these imaginations that came not from the brain, but from the heart. They died before ever blooming out. You learnt how to struggle for your life, for after all, the world demands "survival of the fittest". 

But then, life does not allow for fairy tales, and we are not fairies. In the fairy tales too they struggle, they kill the fiercest monsters, but whatever they may do, they always win in the end. And that's what matters. People write stories about these princes because they win. If they didn't win, no one would write a story about them, would they? After all, history is written by the one who wins!

My life used to be a fairy tale, till about a month back, when everything started going wrong all at once. But that's another story, and will be narrated some other day maybe. Well, the fairy tale did not have a oh-so-perfect ending. Because I invested all my will, but couldn't take away his pain. I saw him suffer, and I pained inside. I prayed to my dearest Gulgul, I asked him to cure him take whatever may, but somewhere something went wrong, because nothing worked, as it usually does. I am a very lucky person, but all my luck failed this time, when I needed it the most.

Don't know when I have to say goodbye to him. Hope it's longer than it seems. Hope against all hope that he gets well again, and I may write happily that all God does, He does for the best only! Because, I can't see what's the best behind this so far. Whatever comes, please always remember Tatai, that I love you the most, and wherever you are, I'll still hold your finger tight when I sit on your shoulder, and we'll walk home the big lobster once more, and you'll narrate me to sleep the story of "Toka-Tuki". Oh, I so wish all those days were back again, and I so wish we were all sitting happily at Bandel, loving each moment we spend together!