Still in love with the lost world

Maria was happy now. As she walked on she talked to herself giving out occasional proud and angry expressions.

“Huh, you think you can black mail me, Huh! You want to do that...that way is too ordinary for me, I am always being emotionally blackmailed by my mom, no one knows it better than me....You drama queen first you use me and now you want to set up him with me.......He deserves me....Huh!....how dare you....Me and that idiot......"

The sound of her last expression got out of her thoughts into the public.

Maria:"...aaaarh"

The people stared at her. She suddenly found eyes looking at her. This was rather awkward for her. She normalised her expression and hurriedly ran away.

As she walked on her phone rang. She took it out, looked and took the call. She walked on as she talked on the phone. It was her mother. She called her to order her to get to her destination hurriedly. She only said okay and cut the phone. She gave out a sigh and smiled and said “What will I do with you, Can't even say no”.

As she crossed the road she entered the station and heard the announcement. She rushed on to a train. As she stepped in the train left. She stood near the door leaning on the train wall, then put on headphones and looked outside.

As she looked outside the scenery changed slowly from the urban city life to the life of luscious greenery. She had been a fan of nature for quite a long time. She had spent the start of her life almost in the womb of nature.

When she got her senses, she was already surrounded by her maternal grandparents. At the age of three she was left with them. Their home was quite big.

A two storey building with two bedrooms, one kitchen, one dining space, one bathing area and two separate toilets on each floor. Actually, it had more than one would need for a shelter.

There was quite a small cemented place in front of the house. A cemented path took you to the garden or rather a forest canopied by big trees almost forty to fifty years old making it dark with occasional streaks of sunlight. She had roamed in the darkness for long being one with it. There was a large bush of red hibiscus almost at the centre of the garden. The plant bore large deep red flowers. It was her personal favourite.

She loved staying there. When she came out she always found her grandfather at work in the small patch of land in front of the house which was left flat to plant small flowering plants. Her grandfather was found tending the garden and her grandma in the kitchen. She went there and helped him asking him about everything that happened in the world. He had his unique way of presenting everything. Long after when she grew up, she understood the meanings of his words. A part of her personality was formed from those words.

Her grandma came with food while she and her grandfather talked. They three sat inside enjoying the food and talking. This was the world she had always been in love with. A life surrounded by nature and good people.

But now they are gone. The land’s been sold and she was afraid of the change. So, she never went there after they died. Their death left a scar in her heart and she became aloof from life for years doing whatever she liked. For their death made her understand that life is full of sadness and sorrow. Nothing is stable. No matter how hard you hold on to the thing you love, it will eventually break. In short everything will be gone one day so there’s no use in living something. Life became meaningless for her. She felt the pain in her heart. So she decided to melt herself in her environment and indulge in self enjoyment. So she can forget all her sorrows.

She looked outside enjoying the nature. After a while a seat got empty she noticed it and sat on it. In the next station an old hermit got on. He was very old yet stood stout and straight. He wore light orange clothes, a long wooden staff and carried a bag like structure made of the same clothes as he wore. The bag looked heavy and the hermit struggled to hold on to it.

After a while her eyes went to him. She saw him struggle for some time. Then she got up and went to him.

She offered him her seat saying “O Hermit, please have a seat”.

The hermit looked at her for a moment then smiled and said “No No, Thank you, but I don’t need it, I’m quite okay”.

So to persuade him she lied “O, don’t worry about me I’m getting off at the next station, please take the seat.”

This persuaded the hermit. He sat in her place and watched her from there. She smiled for the last time at him and turned her head. Then she took her previous pose and listened to music lost in her thought. The hermit watched her. The next station came yet she stood there still looking out. The train left the station. The hermit smiled and turning his gaze whispered “Kind child, may God bless you”.

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