Lessons of Life (LOL)

My dad had just promised me to buy my favorite dress. I was flabbergasted. “But”, he continued. I smiled to myself, I knew it was coming. “You’ve to   help  me  get  some  grocery  for  the  house.”  I  gaped  at  him.  “Do  you  mean  I’ve   to go  to that  crowded  vegetable  market  which has  the  ability  to suffocate   me to  death!?”  I asked.  He just nodded. “It’s fatal and dangerous for a small girl like me!” I  protested with a puppy face. He shrunk his eyes at my over  reaction.  “Okay. Maybe you are too small...

I slouched in my armchair, still quite strained about the loss of my one and a  half marks and the friendship of an immensely sterling friend. Every time my  brother  would see my nerve-racked,  he  would  drag  me  to  a  burger   parlor  to make  me feel  mentally convalescent,  but  he  wasn’t  home  that  day.  ‘I hope  he  is back soon’, my mind chanted. It didn’t  take more  than a few  minutes for  my wish  to be granted.  My brother saw  me, smiled  and asked,  “What now?” As always, I acted reluctant, because I few I could...

Little, glimmering and delicate pearls were falling down from the heavens. They were ready to hit any surface and burst themselves, dividing them into multiple tinier ones. They were as soft as velvet and as desirable as the genie’s three wishes. They drenched everything in their way, and cooled down its temperature, making it calm. I went out of the dry shade I was under. The indiscriminate drops gradually soaked me in their swampy nature too. The soft shower couldn’t cool me down. It brought back memories of happiness that made me gloomier. Once it had brought smiles to me but, now as it reminded me of my grins, it took them away simultaneously.   I sat down on the fresh grassy plot, not being in a state to ponder on what other people would think of me. My eyes impersonated the clouds and departed a flow of watery drops from themselves. Tears rolled down my cheeks because of the rain that could make everything elated but me. My egressed drops blended with those of the...

‘I believe in miracles, and God is the best one happened to me ever.’ “Go, clean  the   small temple  in  our house.”  My  dad  said,  and  I  was  off  at once!  First,  I  took out all  the  idols of  the Almighty  and  kept  them  on a glass table.  They  had  gathered  a bit  of  dust  on  them,  but  that  didn’t decrease  their   purity even  by a single  fraction.  Then, I started brushing off that dirt from  the  sculptures  with  a  clean  cloth,  one by one. I took up the smiling  diminutive  statue  of Lord   Shiva ...