Since it's unfair to expose her name, you can call her as Anna.
Ok. I know Anna very well. Or alt least I believe so. Whatever... I like to think that I know her very well. I know her for the past 6 years. From my college days. She was my classmate and she was one of my good friend too.
Back in college days, she used to talk a a lot, participate a lot, mingle a lot. If there was a program in the college, she would be there in the first row. she was like that. A talkative, friendly and trustworthy person, who always face you with a smile hid between her lips.A happy girl!!!
But today, Anna is not happy as she was before. The hidden smile in her lips is far away from her. I was in touch with her through out these years and I could see her happiness is moving away from her when our friendship was 5 years old, which means one year before. She didn't tell me or she didn't show it out. But It was easy for any person to find the drastic change in her. So I asked her the reason and the reason was exactly the same as I expected. Love!!.
But there is a twist, You must have assumed that it was a love failure. But it is not. It's an ongoing relation which makes her sad. She loves a person from another religion and she don't have the freedom to choose him as her life partner. A boy from another religion was unacceptable for her family. It's not the fault with them. My family too would do the same..Most family in our country do the same. But the thing is,she was in a state of uncertainty.. Like she don't want to loose anyone... she don't want to make any one sad.. neither her boy, nor her family. She couldn't take a decision and this was how the girl with golden tongue became static.
We advised her to marry him.. but she won't hurt her parents. she cannot do the other way as it would hurt her boy. We tried to make her happy but it was pointless. One day I saw her crying alone in a train. I went to her seat without informing her and I saw her crying. She was with me few minutes before, all smiling and having fun with us. But now she is crying. Two minutes.. just two minutes and I asked her the reason and her reply was not surprising..I truly experienced the change in her life. She was a smiling girl but now she is crying. Just because she loved a guy from another religion
It's been around one year since she told me the story and I have never seen the old Anna at least once in the past one year. She smiles in front of us, laughs in front of us but there was something burning inside her. I felt like she is pretending.
So why she became like that. She is an independent girl who is earning around 40K per month and why is she burning inside. Just because she loved a boy ??. Oh.. may be because he is another religion. If she was in another country, she wouldn't be in this stage now. Everyone.. We go for job to have a happy life. all our day to day activities are to keep our life happy. But what if we don't have the freedom to make our life happy. Why can't we choose a life we like ?. Anna doesn't have anything else to worry about. She has a decent job, she has a family, good friends,own house, healthy body.. but still she is unhappy. She has everything to be happy but she is not. So just to make the family happy or just to follow the wrong rules in the society, she needs to sacrifice the happiness for ever ?. This is not only the case with Anna. There are many girls and boys who is facing the same situation only to make the society happy. It's like living our life for others. Yes.. no problem.. you van live for others.. but we can't put our life into sorrows for making others happy.
I saw Anna last week and she said her marriage is somewhat fixed. She said she is not sure whether she could ever love her would-be like she loved the other guy. She is not even confident at this stage.
Our society is forcing her to prefer a relation she don't want. They are asking her to ignore the true love.They are asking her to sacrifice her happiness for them, her dreams for them. I don't know which god prefers that. God made them see each other, talk each other and fall in love each other. He does his part. But the men want to separate them in the name of the same God.
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