A story - Write comments to write the story further.

Dear ILs, let's try this. I ll start a story. Let's build it together. Get your creative juices flowing. Since we are doing this for the first time, let me know, if it's difficult to build on. I have written it randomly to start with.

So here goes the story.



She was all of it. A mother, a wife, a career woman and a wonderful daughter. She was no lesser than a man when it came to her work, aggressive and focussed with a soft touch of woman. With a supportive mother, cooperative husband and smart kid she could easily juggle it all in a single day. With all her material needs satisfied, her life was an envy of her friends and relatives. But as a human mind would want something more, she was hardly happy. Something was missing !!!

 

Usha you made a good additon.

Husband was making fun of me saying, 'you are leaving tougher parts to friends'..heheh..Anyways here goes my addition...So you have rescued the story...

Although to the outer world, she was everything a woman needed to be at her age, she had her own set of unfulfilled desires. From the age four she was in love with painting and photography. She told to herself then, when she grows she would be an artist. But as days passed by, peer pressure, social conventions and the fact that she has to settle, made her enter a life, which was comfortable but not satisfying. She used to think to herself, she was never meant to be here. Nature and it's colors, the subtle things in planet earth are things which she loved celebrating. She was so struck in mundane life that, she wanted a change, she yearned to be herself, which would mean living her interests. She had her own little collections of paintings, which she had worked on during her free times, but it took last priority after attending to work, then family and then day to day problems. She said to herself, when she retires, she would once again get back to this. But that was long way off. Society has a trend always...Once actons and ideas shall be accepted only when someone close ( friends or relatives) have already done it and have been successful).


Shanvy, Devika and Usha - Good work...I can see your writing skills getting unleashed !

 

The story is not over dear AC. I was just testing an idea. Also some editing may be needed here and there to remove redundancy. I will think of something and finish this post

 

With a silent tune playing in her heart, thinking about the day's events, she was almost close to the destination. Her paintings were well appreciated at the auction center. People who saw them, invariably asked the same question 'Why on earth would you leave painting'. You could have worked on this skill and you may have become a professional artist today'.
Perhaps she was way away from starting this from scratch or perhaps not.
After reaching the ashram, she handed the proceeds as she had decided. Visiting ashram had it's own importance in her life. On seeing those orphans, struggling with lives without loved ones, yet being happy, she gets inspired.

She realized, how much we crib, how many human beings fail to realize that, life is just before them and the choice is entirely theirs to make. It was a fresh rejuvenating energy and she decided to quit her job, and pursue her 30 year long wish. Her husband may or may not accept it, but he loves her and would be supportive of her. She hopes her best. It was not as if they didn't have money. It was more of chasing and in the process losing yourself.

The future remains unfolded. She may or may not become a great artist, but she is living her life today, attending classes, drawing and painting, feeling the oneness with nature.